Demetria Gallegos became the online news editor for The Denver Post in June 2005 after working for two years for both The Denver Post and KUSA Channel 9 sharing news content. Gallegos is responsible for breaking news content at denverpost.com, an award-winning website. She is working to change the newsroom culture of "tomorrow morning" deadlines, and also is training the staff in the use of multimedia tools.

She joined Channel 9 in 1995 as a part-time associate producer, and worked her way up to news producer of the 6 p.m. news over eight years. Before that she worked as a production assistant on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour for five years.

Gallegos, a product of North High School in Denver, has a bachelor's degree in English and political science from Columbia University, and a master's degree in journalism, also from Columbia.

Her family has deep roots in the Denver area and she intends to spend her career here. She and her stay-at-home husband are raising their four young daughters in the Evergreen area.