Tạ Bích Loan was born in Ninh Bình, Vietnam, and attended Ly Thuong Kiet High School in Hanoi, also known as Viet Duc High School. She completed a PhD in journalism at Moscow State University in Russia before returning to Vietnam to work in television.[1][3] She created the long-running television programmes The Path to Olympia and Contemporary People. Loan has also developed VTV6, the first national youth TV channel.[2]
Tạ Bích Loan has also lectured in journalism at Hanoi National University and was head of the university's radio and television department.[3]
In 2008, Loan led Vietnam Television's adoption of the newly created code of ethics for Vietnamese journalists, and further developed the code for use by the television network.[2]
