Hello world!
January 22, 2009
Hello! Welcome to the web site of Diane Hawkins-Cox. I was one of the producers CNN let go when it dissolved its Science and Technology Unit in December 2008.
I am a “CNN Original” — one of the 300 or so people on board when CNN went live June 1, 1980. In my 28 1/2 years with the company, I worked in the newsroom, in the Environment Unit, and in the Science and Technology Unit. I produced magazine shows, field-produced stories, copy-edited (in fact, I wrote CNN’s first style manual), wrote news and feature copy and blogs, and even shot video on a few stories. I also wrote upon occasion for CNN Wires (at the time an internal wire service) and cnn.com.
I am available for freelance producing, writing, and copy-editing. I live in Atlanta, but can do some traveling. You can click “About” above to see my resume. If you would like more information, references, or a video reel of my work, please contact me at hawkinscox@gmail.com.
Below are links to some of my pieces. Unfortunately, CNN recently removed nearly all of its archived video and photo material from its web site, so there isn’t much of my video work on the web.
Attack of the Asian Carp
I produced this story.
Green Freezers
I produced and wrote this story.
Dean Kamen Prosthetic Arm
I produced this story.
Zero G Flights for Teachers
No video exists of this story on the web, but here’s a photo of me in my flight suit:
And here’s a blog post about my Zero G experience.
The following are web articles that I wrote. Most of them are derived from video stories that I produced but (as I lamented above) are no longer on the web.
