Diane Dimond

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Diane Dimond is a former reporter for Court TV and a longtime television journalist, reporter and hostess. She was a correspondent for both Hard Copy and Extra before moving to CNBC in 1998 to co-host the news-related program Upfront Tonight with Geraldo Rivera. Following its cancellation in 2000, Dimond signed on with MSNBC as a reporter and hostess. After a brief stint with the Fox News Channel, she joined Court TV as a sometime anchor and regular reporter in 2003, gaining notoriety for her work as a correspondent during the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. During the trial, Dimond made frequent appearances on NBC's Today Show, Larry King Live, Inside Edition, the Don Imus radio program and many other outlets giving updates on the proceedings. In 2005, Court TV, citing financial strains from expanded trial coverage on both the Scott Peterson murder case and the Michael Jackson case, decided not to renew Dimond's contract and her entire investigative unit was disbanded. After leaving Court TV Dimond's book on her decades-long investigation of Jackson was published by Simon and Shuster's Atria books. Entitled, "Be Careful Who You Love - Inside the Michael Jackson Case" it is often vilified by Jackson fans^{[citation needed]}.

Earlier in her career, which began at the 50 thousand watt KOB Radio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dimond worked as a Washington based newscaster on NPR's All Things Considered, as a national political reporter for the now defunct RKO Radio Networks,and as a TV reporter for WCBS-TV in New York.^{[citation needed]}

Ms. Dimond is of French Canadian and Irish extraction and lives in Rockland County, New York, with her husband Michael Schoen, also a journalist.

Dimond can be heard, along with professional mediator Lee Jay Berman and comedian Louise Palanker on [TalkItOver[1], a lively call-in program that helps listeners with personal conflicts through the use of mediation tools, common sense and humor.