Dianne Rinehart is a journalist with more than 20 years experience as a reporter, broadcaster, columnist, writer and editor at magazines, news services, newspapers, websites, radio and television.

  • Currently she is a Team Editor, Books and Visual Arts, with the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest subscription daily. Prior to that she was the interim Business Editor and Editor of the flagship Insight section of the newspaper. .

  • Most recently she was Editor-in-Chief, Metro English Canada and metronews.ca, where she led a national editorial strategy, managing staff, production and budgets for six Metro dailies in Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.

    Metro Canada’s combined daily readership of almost 1.3 million makes it the most read national daily in Canada. And it is part of the of the Metro International chain of free daily newspapers aimed at young, active, metropolitans, which has a global reach of more than 17 million daily readers in more than 100 major cities in the world.

Her varied experience includes working as a:

  • Editor-in-chief of Homemakers magazine, one of Canada’s largest consumer publications.
  • Senior reporter at the CanWest broadsheet, the Vancouver Sun.
  • Parliamentary Correspondent for the flagship bureau of The Canadian Press in Ottawa.
  • Freelance foreign correspondent in Moscow for USA Today and U.S. News and World Report during the Gorbachev era.
  • Associate editor of Flare magazine, Canada’s national fashion publication.
  • Managing editor of Ski Canada magazine.

She has also taught magazine feature writing at Ryerson University's School of Journalism, is a guest speaker (represented by Outstanding Women Speakers) and has appeared frequently as a guest on TV shows, such as On the Line and Behind the Story. Watch her appearances on:

Dianne Rinehart is the Books and Visual Arts edtior at the Toronto star and recently had a personal essay published in He Said What?, an anthology published by Seal Press: http://www.sealpress.com/book.php?isbn=9781580053365.

Her lastest essay in the new anthology Exit Laughing will be published in May. http://www.amazon.com/Exit-Laughing-Humor-Takes-Sting/dp/1583944079/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325705810&sr=1-1

Previously, her columns and articles have also appeared in the:

A 2001 World Bank study concluded what many aid organizations had known for decades: countries where girls are educated have healthier populations, faster growing economies and less government corruption. It concluded: "There is no investment more effective for achieving development goals than educating girls." Meanwhile, the UN recognized the importance of girls education by establishing universal primary education and the promotion of gender equality two of it’s Millennium Goals. And the respected Economist magazine weighed in with this: "Forget China, India and the internet: economic growth is driven by women."

Find out why, whether it’s on native reserves in Canada or in Third World country villages, educating girls is the key not only to economic growth, better health and prosperity but our best bet in the battles against terrorism and AIDS. Give Girls a Chance, an organization Dianne Rinehart co-founded in 2002 to help educate girls in Third World countries and in Canada, follows the motto Educate a girl. Change the World Click here to find out more.