Birth Name: | Diane Pathieu |
Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
Occupation: | Journalist Newscaster |
Years Active: | 2000–present |
Diane Pathieu is an American television anchor who works for WLS-TV in Chicago.[1] [2]
Pathieu born and raised to an Assyrian family in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.[3] Her mother is an immigrant from Syria and her father is an immigrant from Lebanon. In 2001, she graduated with a B.A. from Columbia College. While in school, she worked at Metro/Shadow Traffic and WMAQ-TV. After graduation, she moved to Iowa to become an anchor and producer at KFXB-TV in Dubuque, Iowa. She then got a job as a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor at KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids, Iowa and . In 2005, she accepted a position at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee as a reporter on the morning newscast and as anchor for the noon newscast. In December 2011, she moved to WLS-TV where she serves as general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor.
Pathieu is married.[4] She also speaks Assyrian.