Diana Williams

Diana Williams
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Duke University
Occupation	Television news anchor

Diana Williams is an American television journalist. She is a news anchor at WABC television in New York City, New York, where she co-anchors, with Sade Baderinwa, the one-hour 5 p.m. Eyewitness News broadcast; and hosts the Sunday morning public-affairs program Eyewitness News Up Close with Diana Williams, which airs on Sunday mornings at 11 a.m.

She graduated from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 1980 with a degree in economics.

After interning at WTVD in Durham, Williams began her television career in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she worked as a reporter at WSOC and then as a weeknight anchor at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. at WBTV. From 1987 to 1991, she worked at WNEV (now WHDH) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Williams joined WABC in 1991 as a reporter and eventually became a weekend anchor. Within a year, she was a co-anchor of the station's 11 p.m. Eyewitness News newscast with Bill Beutel. In 1999, Williams joined Beutel on the 6 p.m. newscast as well, becoming Beutel's first co-anchor at 6 p.m. since the departure of Roger Grimsby in 1986.

Beginning in 1999, she co-anchored the 11 p.m. newscast with Bill Ritter, later doing the 6 p.m. newscast with him in 2001, as well, following Beutel's retirement. Williams joined the 5 p.m. newscast in 2003, first alongside Roz Abrams, and later with Sade Baderinwa.

She has traveled the world covering stories for Eyewitness News, including to Ireland and Israel to report on conflicts. But most of her travels were with Pope John Paul II, most notably, his historic visit to Israel in 2000. Williams also traveled with the Pope to Baltimore, Maryland; Mexico City, Mexico; and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She covered the September 11, 2001, attacks and for its tenth anniversary in 2011, Williams reported from outside The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

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