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== Career as a broadcaster ==
 
== Career as a broadcaster ==
She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Augustana College (Illinois)|Augustana College]] and earned master's degrees from the [[University of Chicago]] and [[University of Missouri]], and spent six years teaching [[English language|English]] and journalism before becoming a broadcast journalist. Her first job was at [[KTVI]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], around 1981,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsdw_FbWGWY</ref> where she reported and anchored. By 1983, she was headed to [[WHDH (TV)|WNEV-TV]] in Boston, where she started as a reporter and soon became the main female anchor of that station alongside veteran reporter [[Tom Ellis (journalist)|Tom Ellis]], to lead the 6:00pm hour of news, by that time in a strong third place in the ratings. Despite that the newscast received good reviews from the critics during her tenure; she stepped down in 1986. She then taught Journalism at Northeastern University for a few semesters alongside her then-husband Jim Willis. Shortly after this, in January 1988 she joined WRTV in Indianapolis as the 6:00 and 11:00pm 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.<ref name="ibj.com"/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theindychannel.com/news/critics-question-school-s-pricey-pr-contracts|title=Critics Question School's Pricey PR Contracts|date=2 December 2010|publisher=|accessdate=15 June 2016}}</ref>
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She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Augustana College (Illinois)|Augustana College]] and earned master's degrees from the [[University of Chicago]] and [[University of Missouri]], and spent six years teaching [[English language|English]] and journalism before becoming a broadcast journalist. Her first job was at [[KTVI]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], around 1981,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsdw_FbWGWY</ref> where she reported and anchored. By 1983, she was headed to [[WHDH (TV)|WNEV-TV]] in Boston, where she started as a reporter and soon became the main female anchor of that station alongside veteran reporter [[Tom Ellis (journalist)|Tom Ellis]], to lead the 6:00pm hour of news, by that time in a strong third place in the ratings. Despite that the newscast received good reviews from the critics during her tenure; she stepped down in 1986. She then taught Journalism at Northeastern University for a few semesters alongside her then-husband Jim Willis. Shortly after this, in January 1988 she joined WRTV in Indianapolis as the 6:00 and 11:00pm 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.<ref name="ibj.com"/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theindychannel.com/news/critics-question-school-s-pricey-pr-contracts|title=Critics Question School's Pricey PR Contracts|date=2 December 2010|publisher=|accessdate=15 June 2016}}</ref>
 
 
Diane Willis appears as herself in the fifth-season episode of ''[[Queen of the Willis]]'', "[[Ava Gets Dianed]]", in which [[Ava Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Ava Willis]] is said to be Diane's cousin.
 
  
 
== Personal life ==
 
== Personal life ==

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