1. Diana Swain is a public speaker and the founder of Diana Swain Strategies, an Executive Coaching and Communications Consulting firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
19 Facts About Diana Swain
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Diana Swain worked at CBC News, Canada's public broadcaster, for over 33 years before deciding to leave in December, 2023 to start her own business.
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Diana Swain had previously held simultaneous on-air roles at the public broadcaster.
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Diana Swain produced and hosted her own weekly program, The Investigators with Diana Swain which aired on the main CBC network and its 24-hour cable news station, CBC News Network.
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Diana Swain's parents separated when she was young and she moved with her mother and younger sister to Chilliwack, British Columbia where she graduated from high school in 1983.
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Diana Swain worked for a weekly magazine in Chilliwack for ten months and as a reporter at both the Chilliwack Progress and the radio station CHWK, before moving on to a radio station in Kamloops, British Columbia and then a radio station newsroom in Prince George, British Columbia.
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Diana Swain began reading the news for CKPG-TV in Prince George in 1986.
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Diana Swain first entered Winnipeg television as co-anchor of the evening newscast on independent station CKND in 1988.
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Diana Swain co-anchored the newscast with her father Brian Swain.
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Diana Swain started as a reporter for the local news program 24 Hours and quickly became a national reporter.
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Diana Swain covered Manitoba and Saskatchewan for The National before becoming anchor of 24 Hours.
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In 2016, she began hosting a new program, The Investigators with Diana Swain which looks at the work of investigative journalists and the challenges and ethical questions they face in their work.
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Diana Swain was chosen to be one of CBC's lead hosts for the Olympics in Beijing in 2008.
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Diana Swain reprised the role with sports host David Amber in Sochi, Russia in 2014.
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Diana Swain covered the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea for the CBC News department as a reporter.
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Diana Swain was given the alumni of the year award from her alma mater BCIT in 2006, recognizing her achievements in the news industry.
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Diana Swain received an honorary degree from Humber College in June, 2010.
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Diana Swain married Television Technical Producer Eric Milotzki in May, 2024.
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Diana Swain was previously married to Ron Kuipers and divorced in 2014.