Women on Top: Tweaking a Work in Progress - 9/8/2010 11:30 AM

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Sep89/8/2010 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Women on Top: Tweaking a Work in Progress

Union League Club, 65 West Jackson Blvd.(map)

Diann Burns is one of the nation’s most recognizable TV news journalists. For nearly 25 years she has kept Chicago viewers informed of the daily happenings in Chicago. Diann has received 1 national EMMY and 10 regional EMMY awards for various reports and news coverage. From 2003 to early 2008 she anchored the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. news at CBS 2/WBBM.

Before working at CBS 2 CHICAGO, Diann was co-anchor of WLS-TV's top rated 5:00 PM and 10:00 PM newscasts. She was Chicago's first African-American woman to serve as lead anchor of a 10:00 PM news broadcast.

Throughout her career, Diann has covered several historic world news events for Chicago, including South African President Nelson Mandela's first visit to the United States, the United States' aid to Somalia during the famine crisis in the 1990s, four national political conventions and the funerals of Mayor Harold Washington and football legend Walter Payton.

Diann is the current host of the Chicago Urban League’s emmy-award winning business and lifestyle television series nextTV.

Diann is active in several community organizations and over the years has donated her time and efforts to more than a hundred charities. She has an undergraduate degree in Politics and Mass Communications from Cleveland State University and a Masters degree from Columbia University in New York's Graduate School of Journalism.

Diann, her husband Marc Watts, and their son live on Chicago's north side.

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