About Diane Cardwell
Diane Cardwell was an American writer and journalist.
Diane Cardwell is an African-American former business reporter for The New York Times focusing on renewable energy. The New York Times Metro editor Joe Sexton called her a "child of Harlem".
Career Cardwell was an editor at 7 Days (1988–1990), a New York arts and entertainment weekly magazine, and a founder of Vibe.
In 1991, Cardwell wrote for Entertainment Weekly.
In 1995, The New York Times hired Cardwell as an arts and entertainment staff editor for the Sunday magazine. In 2005, The New York Times promoted Cardwell to city hall bureau chief.
Cardwell has written for New York, O, The Oprah Magazine, Details, Rolling Stone and Vogue.
In August 2021, Kerry Washington planned to produce and star in, an adaptation of Cardwell's memoir, Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life, for Netflix.
Works
Personal life On 5 October 2002, Diane Cardwell married Eric Steven Nonacs.
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