Vox Editor-in-Chief Swati Sharma and Executive Editor Elbert Ventura announced today that Angela Chen Joined Brand as senior editor in the policy, politics and ideas team. He begins his new role on August 19.
“I am thrilled to welcome Angela. One of the things that sets Vox’s policy and politics coverage apart is our deep commitment to ideas and intellectual debate, and our ability to articulate claims for everyone. We are an ideas-driven newsroom, and Angela is a perfect match for our ethos. I look forward to seeing the insight and curiosity he will bring to our coverage,” said Ventura.
In her role at Vox, Angela Chen will work with writers on a wide range of stories on a range of topics — poverty, reproductive rights, housing, the care economy and guns, among others — unpacking the concepts, themes and ideas that underlie. Our politics and policy. Angela was most recently a senior editor at Wired, running its Ideas section and publishing thought-provoking work on a variety of topics. Previously, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review and Vox Media’s editorial brand The Verge.