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Diane Cardwell is an African-American former^[1] business reporter for The New York Times focusing on renewable energy.^[2]

In an interview for BULLPEN, a student-written webzine by New York University's Department of Journalism, Cardwell replied that she was born in 1964 and grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.^[3] The New York Times Metro editor Joe Sexton called her a "child of Harlem".^[4]

Cardwell was an editor at 7 Days (1988–1990), a New York arts and entertainment weekly magazine, and a founder of Vibe.^[5][6]

In 1991, Cardwell wrote for Entertainment Weekly.^[7]

In 1995, The New York Times hired Cardwell as an arts and entertainment staff editor for the Sunday magazine.^[2] In 2000, Cardwell became a reporter.^[2] In 2005, The New York Times promoted Cardwell to city hall bureau chief.^[4]

Cardwell has written for New York, O, The Oprah Magazine, Details, Rolling Stone and Vogue.^[8]

"I don’t look at documents" — Diane Cardwell^[3]

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.^[9]

• Cardwell, Diane (2020). Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-358-06778-8.^[10]

On 5 October 2002, Diane Cardwell married Eric Steven Nonacs.^[11]

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