Diana Pereira
Web Editor
Diana is the web editor for all news radio stations (seven in total), based out of the 680News newsroom.
Since 1999, Diana's online journalism career has included coverage of such memorable stories as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the death of Pope John Paul II, September 11, the end of the Air India trial and the death of a Canadian solider in Afghanistan. Presenting information in a multimedia world using audio slideshows, timelines, videos, quizzes and photo galleries make stories like these come to life.
Four years after coding her days away as a web producer for globeandmail.com, Diana moved over to the print world. She spent a gruelling summer in the newsroom at The Globe and Mail, editing and laying out pages for the news section. She then returned to cyberspace and spent two-and-a-half years as an online editor for globeandmail.com, the site she helped create back when she was a web producer. Diana has also worked at the WSIB and Kaboose.com as an online editor.
In addition to managing a small web team, Diana is currently creating and managing online exclusive content for 680News.com and other Rogers radio news sites. Diana also writes and edits on a freelance basis. Her work can sometimes be read Saturdays in The Globe's Travel section. Diana has a UofT degree in Criminology and European Studies and a post-graduate certificate in journalism from Ryerson.
When not on the web, you can catch Diana, a Torontonian born and raised, travelling. In less than a year between February 2007 to January 2008, she ventured to Cuba, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, New York City, Brazil and Argentina.
When she's in Toronto (with her brain on a plane), Diana is learning to dance, catching live bands (mostly Brazilian) and incessantly promoting cultural events in the city to her friends. Her next projects are to start and complete both a course in creative travel writing and a certificate in Portuguese-English translation. She’d like to teach both ESL and online journalism one day, along with teaching someone to read.
As if that’s not enough, she one day hopes to save enough money to get her pilot's licence. In preparation for dealing with heights, she's stepped off a plane (skydiving), jumped off a cliff (ziplining) and ran off a mountain (hang-gliding over Rio de Janeiro).
