CBC Arts Online offers comprehensive coverage of arts, media and entertainment for Canadians, from a Canadian perspective. In addition to up-to-the-minute arts news, the section provides original commentary and analysis on the latest trends and developments in film, television, books, music, art, design, media, advertising and theatre. The journalists at CBC Arts Online draw upon the full resources of the CBC and are committed to furthering the network’s reputation for excellence in arts coverage.

Greig Dymond is the senior producer at Arts Online. In the past, he's been a producer with both CBC TV and Radio, as well as with CTV. He began his career in 1990, as a producer on CBC Radio's pop culture analysis program Prime Time. Greig is co-author of the national bestseller Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey. He was executive editor, senior editor and arts editor at Shift, Canada's digital culture magazine.

Rachel Giese comes to us from Book Television, where she was an on-air host and Senior News Producer since 2003. She has worked as an arts and entertainment journalist for ten years, both in print and broadcasting. Rachel wrote a weekly column on politics and culture for The Toronto Star for five years and was Features Editor at Xtra for four years. She has served as Executive Director of the Inside Out Film Festival and her writing has appeared in ROB Magazine, The Globe and Mail, This Magazine and the National Post. Rachel was also the books columnist on CBC Newsworld's Play.

Jessica Wong is an arts news writer and editor. She joined us after stints as an associate producer with CBC4Kids and ArtsCanada. Jessica has a bachelor's degree in magazine journalism from Ryerson University.

Susan Noakes is an arts news writer and editor. She has been a reporter at The Toronto Star and The Financial Post, a copy editor at the Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, a news writer at CBC Newsworld and a freelance magazine writer.

Ann Swerdfager is the copy editor for Arts Online. She has also worked at CBC.ca as Senior Producer of Regional News, a service she helped launch. She has been an editor and writer for 20 years, with the CBC, the Financial Post, and independent film and advertising companies in Canada and England.

Katrina Onstad was an arts writer with the National Post, serving as head film writer for several years. Her work has appeared in many Canadian magazines and newspapers as well as internationally in the New York Times, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine and Salon. Katrina has received three National Magazine Award nominations for her exceptional cultural reporting in Toronto Life. Her first novel, How Happy To Be, was published by McClelland and Stewart in January, 2006.

Andre Mayer has written about arts - primarily books and music – for Toronto Life, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, eye Weekly, Report on Business Magazine, TORO, Shift (where he also served as Arts Editor), Saturday Night, THIS Magazine and Azure. His writing has been anthologized in The Rough Guide to Rock and Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers.

Matthew McKinnon has written about culture and technology for a variety of magazines, including Toronto Life, TORO, Azure and Saturday Night. He has been a contributing editor at National Post Business magazine and Senior Writer at Shift. In 2001, he won the Alexander Ross Award for Best New Writer at the National Magazine Awards. He also won a Gold National Magazine Award for an article on hi-tech work wear, and has been nominated two other times.

Timothy Neesam has worked as producer and/or director on a wide range of arts and entertainment projects for CBC Radio (Roots and Wings, The Arts Today and Take Five), Radio 3, and CBC.ca. Also a practicing photographer, he is a member of Toronto's Gallery 44. Timothy is the coordinating producer for Arts Online.