Darlene Heidemann

Reporter

UPDATE: Darlene is no longer with Global BC.

Darlene Heidemann joined the Global BC news team as a full time reporter in December 1999. Her previous media experience includes three years at the Bill Good Show at CKNW radio.

Darlene grew-up in Edmonton but considers the Lower Mainland her home.

She has a sociology and economics degree from the University of Alberta and a broadcast journalism diploma from BCIT.

Darlene enjoys digging for investigative stories. She has taken an interest in covering the developing stories on the disappearance of women from Vancouver’s downtown eastside, the Highway of Tears between Prince Rupert and Prince George and in Edmonton. Additionally, she has been reporting on the Robert Pickton court case on an ongoing basis.

Darlene’s proudest professional achievement happened in 1999. That year she won a Jack Webster Award for an investigative piece on sexual assault in hockey.

“A B.C. girl had been raped by five hockey players. A team member came forward to talk about the cover up, but the girl had not yet told anyone about what had happened. Confronting her about it was one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do. I did not know how she would react. Luckily, she seemed relieved and later told her parents about what had happened. The award I later won meant a lot to me as Jack Webster was a great broadcaster.”

Darlene has a passion for traveling. She has been to Bosnia as a radio reporter, and was in Fiji during the coup in the late 1980s. Darlene spent a year backpacking in Australia, and has traveled throughout Europe and Mexico.