Diane Willis

Diane Willis (née Bruhn)[1] (born July 4, 1948)[2] is an American journalist, documentalist, teacher and newscaster.

Diane Willis
Born
Diane Bruhn

1948
Alma materAugustana College
Spouse(s)Clyde Lee
Children2

Career as a broadcaster

Willis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Augustana College and earned several master's degrees from both the University of Chicago and University of Missouri. She spent six years teaching English and journalism before becoming a broadcast journalist. During 1981-82 her first job was at KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri,[3] where she reported and anchored. By 1983, she moved to Boston's WNEV-TV, where she started as a reporter and soon became the main female anchor alongside veteran reporter Tom Ellis, to lead the 6:00 pm news hour, by that time a strong third place in the ratings. The newscast received good reviews from the critics during her tenure; although she stepped down in 1986. She then taught Journalism at Northeastern University for a few semesters alongside her then-husband Jim Willis. Soon after, in January 1987, she joined WRTV in Indianapolis as the 6:00 and 11:00 pm anchor with Clyde Lee. They would remain as the principal faces of the news division until 2001, when both agreed to resign and left the television news business. With Lee, she began a new consultant firm named Lee-Willis Communications, specializing in public relations, crisis communications and training corporate executives to deal with the media.[2] This firm had a mild controversy when WRTV reported that the former anchors had received $30,000 from a high school to make public relations related releases. Willis replied that they couldn't do any more for them.[4]

Personal life

Diane and Jim Willis married in the early 1980s, and in 1983, they adopted two sons, David and John. The couple divorced.[5] Willis and Clyde Lee married in 2000.

gollark: If you want to factor in each individual location's needs in some giant model, you'll run into issues like:- people lying- it would be horrifically complex
gollark: Information flow: imagine some farmer, due to some detail of their climate/environment, needs extra wood or something. But the central planning models just say "each farmer needs 100 units of wood for farming 10 units of pig"; what are they meant to do?
gollark: The incentives problems: central planners aren't really as affected by how well they do their jobs as, say, someone managing a firm, and you probably lack a way to motivate people "on the ground" as it were.
gollark: What, so you just want us to be stuck at one standard of living forever? No. Technology advances and space mining will... probably eventually happen.
gollark: But that step itself is very hard, and you need to aggregate different people's preferences, and each step ends up being affected by the values of the people working on it.

References
  1. "Obituaries for February 18, 2000".
  2. http://www.ibj.com/articles/17814-lee-willis-prosper-outside-limelight-former-wrtv-co-anchors-run-growing-public-relations-firm.
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsdw_FbWGWY
  4. "Critics Question School's Pricey PR Contracts". 2 December 2010. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  5. Willis, William James; Willis, Jim (1 January 1990). "Journalism: State of the Art". ABC-CLIO. Retrieved 15 June 2016 – via Google Books.
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