Diana Swain

Diana Swain
Diana Swain on September 11, 2011
Born	September 24, 1965 (1965-09-24) (age 51) Thompson, Manitoba
Alma mater	British Columbia Institute of Technology
Occupation	Journalist, broadcaster
Children	Mason (born 1995) Lara (born 1998)
Parent(s)	Brian Swain

Diana Swain is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the CBC's Senior Investigative Correspondent and host of The Investigators with Diana Swain on CBC News Network.

Swain was born in Thompson, Manitoba. Her 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. In 1984 she represented Chilliwack in the Miss Canada pageant [1]. She 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. She began reading the news for CKPG-TV in Prince George in 1986.

Swain first entered Winnipeg television as co-anchor of the evening newscast on independent station CKND in 1988. Notably, she co-anchored the newscast with her father Brian Swain.

Swain joined CBC's Winnipeg station CBWT in 1990. She started as a reporter for the local news program 24 Hours and quickly became a national reporter after being recognized for her coverage of the 1997 Manitoba Flood. She covered Manitoba and Saskatchewan for The National before becoming anchor of 24 Hours. In 2000, Swain's work on 24 Hours was recognized when she won the first of three Gemini Awards for Best News Anchor. By winning the most prestigious award in Canadian television, she broke a streak that saw CBC's The National anchor Peter Mansbridge and CTV's national news anchor Lloyd Robertson swap the trophy back and forth for many years.