Biography: Diane Davis
Diane Davis, a veteran beat reporter, was deputy metropolitan editor for the newspaper and worked under Metropolitan Editor John Mancini at the Queens bureau. Davis responsibilities included planning stories, developing the paper’s line-up, assigning reporters to stories and locations, and coordinating those stories with appropriate art and photography. Though Davis and Mancini worked on the print edition of the paper, they coordinated their efforts with the Web staff, who often consulted with them on Web stories.