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(I)NTERVIEW: Diane Orson

Diane Orson began her career as a professional musician performing all over the world. She has been playing the violin ever since she was seven and told her mom she "liked strings". 
 
After graduating from New York University Gallatin school, Orson decided she wanted to try her hand in radio. She illegally subletted her apartment in New York and traveled to Boston scoring an internship at NPR affiliate WBUR. 
 
Her success at WBUR made her a candidate as co-producer for Faith Middleton's show, Open Air New England. She moved to Connecticut where she is now a reporter and producer for WNPR. Her stories have also featured on NPR on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Day to Day, Living on Earth and Voice of America. 

Diane has earned wide recognition for her work by the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, including the prestigious Ellen Abrams Award for Personal Excellence in Broadcasting and the Walt Dibbel Award for Overall Excellence. In 1991 she won a Peabody Award with Faith Middleton.She says she was lucky in her life, but she works hard everyday. When the right opportunity came, she took advantage of it.

She currently lives in Hamden with her husband and two children. 

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