Angie Lau is a journalist, speaker, founder, and editor-in-chief of Forkast.News, an Asia-based digital media platform covering emerging technology. Before founding Forkast.News, Lau spent four years anchoring Bloomberg TV’s flagship morning showFirst Up with Angie Lau, broadcast globally from Hong Kong.
Early life and education
Lau was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada when she was 2 years old. She is a graduate of Ryerson University’s School of Journalism.
Career
After graduating, Lau took on a position as researcher and reporter with BCTV in Vancouver, British Columbia. She then joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Calgary as a reporter before moving to take the same role with CFTO-DT in Toronto. In 2000, she moved to the United States to join WEWS-TV, an ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, where she was the station's special investigative consumer reporter and anchor. Lau joined Bloomberg TV in 2008 in its Chicago bureau, where she covered markets and business stories from the Chicago Board of Trade. In 2011, Lau moved to Bloomberg's Hong Kong bureau as a market reporter, and in January 2014, she was named the lead anchor of Bloomberg TV's morning show First Up with Angie Lau. At Bloomberg, Lau interviewed newsmakers and CEOs, including the exclusive with billionaire Li Ka-shing — his first television one-on-one in more than a decade — as well as notable figures such as Victoria Beckham, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, British fashion designerSir Paul Smith, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In 2018, Lau founded Forkast.News, a digital media platform based in Asia known for its on-camera interviews with key figures in blockchain to discuss trends in the industry at the intersection of business, economy, and politics. She has interviewed leading figures in blockchain including Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin of ConsenSys & Ethereum, Changpeng Zhao of Binance, and Arthur Hayes of BitMEX. She serves as an officer on the Executive Committee Canadian Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong and is a former two-term President and now senior board member of Asian American Journalists Association Asia Chapter. She is a former Correspondent Board Governor at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong.
Speaking
Lau is a frequent speaker at technology, blockchain, innovation, financial markets, and media events. In 2019, she spoke at Forbes Women's Summit, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Catalonia Investment Forum, OECD’s Blockchain Policy Forum Summit, Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Hong Kong Blockchain Week, Asia Blockchain Summit, and Digital Journalism Summit. In 2019, Lau was featured in Vogue Hong Kong’s May issue “Power of Next” for her leadership in media covering blockchain and has appeared on RTHK.
Awards and honors
As a reporter at WEWS-TV, Lau was nominated for an Emmy for her investigative consumer reporting on carbon monoxide meat. She won numerous awards from 132-year-old Press Club of Cleveland during her time at WEWS-TV for “Excellence in Journalism” in Cleveland, Ohio, along with “Best Consumer Reporting” from the Society of Professional Journalists. She was a fellow of the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists in 2006. Lau was nominated for Asian Television Awards “Best News Anchor/Presenter” in 2014 but did not take home the award.
