Andree Lau

Andree Lau is senior director of digital news publishing and streaming at CBC News, where she oversees the national website, news app, social media content, the CBC News Network 24-hour news speciality channel and the CBC News Explore FAST channel. 

Andree started her journalism career running the overnight homepage for CBCNews.ca. At CBC, she's worked as a TV reporter, video journalist, food columnist (radio and online), and as a writer, producer, and editor (TV and digital) in nine newsrooms across Canada. She spent eight years at HuffPost Canada, where she helped build one of the most diverse and young newsrooms in the country. They broke enterprise, politics and lifestyle stories with an inclusive lens and experimented with live streams and digital video. After three years as editor-in-chief of HuffPost Canada , Andree returned to CBC in 2020 to lead its digital news publishing strategy. 

Andree was born and raised in Vancouver, B.C. where her parents ran a Chinese-language radio station.