Diana Diamond is an American journalist who has edited a number of newspapers including the Palo Alto Daily News, and was a columnist at the Palo Alto Weekly.
14 Facts About Diana Diamond
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Diana Diamond graduated with a BA in English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1958.
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Diana Diamond began her career in journalism in the suburbs of Chicago, where she was a reporter, managing editor and finally senior managing editor for Lerner Newspapers, a group of publications in 49 communities with a combined circulation of 325,000.
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Diana Diamond was an editorial writer and columnist for the San Jose Mercury News.
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Diana Diamond served on the Mercury News Editorial Board and launched the paper's Sunday Perspective section, now discontinued as not viable.
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In 1982, Diana Diamond started California Lawyer, a magazine then published by The State Bar of California.
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Diana Diamond's departure was reported by Dajani's Daily News as being a mutual "parting of the ways," but Diana Diamond said she was "shocked" by the decision.
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Diana Diamond's dismissal triggered numerous letters to the editor and the Weekly picked up her column.
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In May 2008, Mrs Diana Diamond announced that she was leaving the Weekly to join the Palo Alto Daily Post, founded by the Daily News's founders and located in its original offices.
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Diana Diamond was a columnist for the Post until August 22,2011, when her final column appeared.
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Diana Diamond serves on the Palo Alto board of the American Red Cross.
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Diana Diamond is a member of the Rotary Club of Palo Alto and served as its President in 1999.
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Diana Diamond started the local Rotacare program, a Saturday morning clinic staffed by volunteer doctors and nurses in East Palo Alto.
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Diana Diamond has served on a number of other nonprofit boards over the years.