Tara Francis Chan is Managing Editor & Operations Director at The Appeal, where she has helped lead its relaunch as a worker-led nonprofit newsroom.<\/p>\n
Tara was previously a senior editor at Newsweek and was the launch editor of Business Insider\u2019s Asia desk, establishing a news team across three continents. Prior to this, she was the editor of a leading Australian magazine and managed special projects including conferences, books, and masterclasses. She was previously a finalist for Young Australian Journalist of the Year and was a cohort member of this year’s Leadership Academy for Women in Media.<\/p>\n
Tara has a bachelor in communications and biochemistry, as well as a diploma in innovation management, from the University of New South Wales. She has worked on projects in New York, London, Moscow, Sydney, Edinburgh, and Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8320,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Tara","last_name":"Francis Chan","title":"Managing Editor & Operations Director","organization":"The Appeal","website":"","twitter":"taramfrancis","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":""},"event":[53],"class_list":["post-8322","ona_speaker","type-ona_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-ona22"],"yoast_head":"\n