She served on the Mercury News Editorial Board and launched the paper's Sunday Perspective section, now discontinued as not viable.
In 2001, she became a columnist for the Palo Alto Daily News, tackling topics ranging from "traffic calming" to teacher training, from pension perks to police misconduct, from business revitalization to beautification.
After Price and Pavelich left in December 2005, Knight Ridder appointed a publisher, Shareef Dajani, who, only days after taking over, fired[2] Diamond and replace her with a former colleague from the East Bay weekly newspaper.
[5] In addition to her newspaper work, Ms. Diamond serves on the Palo Alto board of the American Red Cross.
She started the local Rotacare program, a Saturday morning clinic staffed by volunteer doctors and nurses in East Palo Alto.