Diane Orson
Diane Orson is CT Public Radio's Deputy News Director and Southern Connecticut Bureau Chief. For years, hers was the first voice many Connecticut residents heard each day as the local host of Morning Edition. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Here And Now. She is the co-recipient of a Peabody Award. Her work has been recognized by the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, including the Ellen Abrams Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Walt Dibble Award for Overall Excellence.
Diane is also an active professional musician. She and her husband are the parents of two very cool adult children.
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Indigenous and Black people tell their own seafaring stories at Mystique Seaport Museum -
For centuries, stories of northern slavery were not easy to find. Understanding slavery in this project involves learning the stories of those enslaved — and bearing witness.
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Samson Occom was sent to Europe to raise funds for a school for Native American students, but the money was diverted to found Dartmouth College. Now a step toward reconciliation.
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Yale University Art Gallery delivered stolen artifacts valued at more than $1 million to the New York District Attorney's Office. This comes amid a long-running investigation into suspected art trafficker Subhash Kapoor. -
Alex Jones lost a defamation case brought on by families of some of the 26 victims killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
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Last week the Biden administration ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to close a detention facility in Massachusetts that has held many people... -
Hank Bolden is one of thousands of U.S. soldiers exposed to secret nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s. He's now using compensation money from the federal government to focus on his first love: music. -
Millennials now outnumber baby boomers in the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And though the millennial generation has been... -
In Connecticut, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is trying to deport a legal permanent resident even though her record has been cleared.
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Jewish congregations around Connecticut struggled this weekend to absorb the news out of Pittsburgh. Several communities held candlelight vigils to...
