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).