Diane Dwyer

Bay Area native Diane Dwyer is the weekend anchor

Updated 7:49 PM PST, Sat, Aug 1, 2009

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Bay Area Native Diane Dwyer is the weekend anchor for NBC Bay Area News.

You can follow Diane on Twitter all weekend long. While you are out and about, she'll follow the news for you and send out tweets with any updates of important events you would not want to miss.

Diane brings 20 years of Bay Area reporting experience to KNTV. She has won several awards including: Emmy, Associated Press, New York Film Festival and Bay Area Society of Professional Journalist awards.

Diane covered Barack Obama's historial Presidential Inauguration from Washington D.C. She traveled to Torino, Italy to cover the Olympic games and also traveled to Beijing in June of 2007 to report extensively on that city's preparations for the 2008 Summer Games and she returned to Beijing to cover the Bay Area Olympians going for gold in China.

Diane is keenly involved with F.A.C.E. Scholarships in Oakland, German Shepherd Rescue, Rebuilding Together Peninsula, the Asian American Donor Program, the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange and several other non-profits in the Bay Area.

Growing up in the Peninsula, Diane attended Burlingame High School and the Undergraduate Business School at UC Berkeley. Diane first went into corporate/investment banking, but after a year as an investment analyst at Chemical Bank, she decided to change careers.

Diane and her husband have two children. The family also has a dog they adopted from pet rescue.