Valarie Basheda

Valarie Basheda, vice president of editorial, oversees creation of Everyday Health’s news and core content. Prior to Everyday Health, she worked at WebMD in a number of roles, leading the site’s award-winning news and special projects and its core content team. She also worked as an editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, American Journalism Review, and the Detroit Free Press, and started her journalism career as a reporter at the Detroit News.

Basheda received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's degree in English, Phi Beta Kappa, from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.