![]() Diane Dimond regularly appeared on Court TV, one of the nation's most successful cable networks, and often fills in for other anchors on many other news channels Diane
broke the Michael
Jackson child molestation story,
Her sucess with this story was recently covered in the New York Observer. While she may not get hired on 60 Minutes anytime soon, Ms. Dimond’s latest coup has not gone unrewarded: On the day she spoke to NYTV, Court TV announced that Ms. Dimond anchored its Thursday night prime-time program, "Hollywood at Large". Diane now has her own blog at dianedimond.net/ imond specialized in the network's continuing live coverage of the war on terrorism. Her live interviewsAt the FOX News Channel, Diane regularly delt with military and policy newsmakers is often quoted by other news organizations. At Court TV Dimond appears on the networks evening news magazine program as well as hosts live daytime coverage of on-going trials. Diane began her career in Albuquerque, N.M. At KOB Radio her investigative series on corruption within the local sheriff's department earned her the prestigious Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. In 1976, Dimond moved across the country to anchor newscasts for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. In 1980 she became correspondent for the RKO Radio Network, assigned to cover Capitol Hill, the White House and various Washington agencies. She became the network's National Political Correspondent and covered the presidential campaign of Walter Mondale. Finally making a move into television in 1986, Dimond's first TV News job was at the flagship CBS Station in New York. At WCBS she earned several awards for covering such groundbreaking stories as the "Baby M" surrogate mother case. Dimond went national in 1990 when she became the investigative reporter for the syndicated program Hard Copy. She may be most often remembered for her award winning series of investigative reports, which first revealed the child molestation charges against entertainer Michael Jackson. Time Magazine cited her continuing coverage of the Jackson story as among "The Best TV of '93". Dimond also made headlines when she aired the actual interrogation tape of OJ Simpson being questioned by the Los Angeles police department. Diane has been at the center of countless other major news stories as well. She was the first to report the story of rape at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach, Fla., and to identify William Kennedy Smith as the accused. And Dimond has been praised for her hard-hitting interviews with a number of infamous prison figures including: James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., Jeffery McDonald, the convicted "Fatal Vision Killer", Kenneth Bianchi, the convicted "Hillside Strangler," and she is the only reporter to have ever interviewed Richard Allen Davis, the convicted killer of Polly Klaas. In 1998 Diane moved to NBC and partnered with Geraldo Rivera to co-anchor CNBC's nightly newscast, UpFront Tonight. She anchored extensive reports from Washington on the impeachment proceedings against former President Bill Clinton. At MSNBC Dimond covered the presidential campaign, traveling with three candidates, George W. Bush, Al Gore and Ralph Nader. Dimond also became known as the correspondent who spent 35 straight days outside the vice president's residence in Washington as the nation awaited the final, controversial recount. Diane lives in
Rockland
County, N.Y., with her husband, fellow broadcast journalist Michael
Schoen.
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