Diane Rehm is an American journalist and the host of Diane Rehm: On My Mind podcast, produced at WAMU, which is licensed to American University in Washington, DC.
24 Facts About Diane Rehm
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Rehm is the former American public radio talk show host of The Diane Rehm Show, which was distributed nationally and internationally by National Public Radio.
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Diane Rehm announced she was going to host a weekly podcast, which she began doing in January 2017.
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Diane Rehm is the co-producer, narrator, and interviewer of When My Time Comes, distributed by PBS stations across the country.
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Diane Rehm was born in Washington, DC According to Diane Rehm's autobiography, Finding My Voice, her father's family were Eastern Orthodox Christians from Ottoman Mersin, a city on the southern coast of Anatolia.
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Diane Rehm's father immigrated to the United States in 1911, following his older brothers.
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Diane Rehm returned to Mersin to marry her mother, but found that she and her family were living in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Diane Rehm brought her to the United States in 1929; family memories of how the two met vary.
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Diane Rehm married John Diane Rehm, her second husband, in 1959; he was working at the State Department, where she was working as a secretary.
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John Diane Rehm died June 23,2014, after he stopped eating and drinking to end his suffering from Parkinson's disease.
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Diane Rehm has two adult children, David and Jennifer, and two grandchildren.
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Diane Rehm began her radio career in 1973 as a volunteer for WAMU's The Home Show.
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In 1979, she took over as the host of WAMU's morning talk show, Kaleidoscope, which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in 1984.
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Diane Rehm has interviewed many political and cultural figures, including John McCain, Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright.
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Diane Rehm has said that her most touching interview was with Fred Rogers of the PBS program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, conducted just before his death.
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The first, Finding My Voice, dealt with her traditional upbringing in a Christian Arab household, her brief first marriage and divorce, her 50-year marriage to John Diane Rehm, raising her children, the first 20 years of her radio career, and her battles with depression, and spasmodic dysphonia.
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Together with John Diane Rehm she co-wrote Toward Commitment: A Dialogue About Marriage, which was published in 2002.
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The final broadcast of The Diane Rehm Show was aired on December 23,2016.
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In 2005, a private study funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting reported that Diane Rehm booked 22 liberal guests for every 5 conservative guests.
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On June 10,2015, Diane Rehm interviewed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and stated that Sanders had dual citizenship with Israel; this was not true.
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Sanders denied that he holds dual citizenship, but Diane Rehm repeated her assertion of the senator's dual citizenship as a fact.
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Sophia Tesfaye of Salon pointed out that Diane Rehm apparently fell for an antisemitic canard and did not successfully fact-check her information before she conducted her interview with Sanders.
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Diane Rehm apologized for her exchange with Sanders in a statement released later that day.
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Diane Rehm is collaborating with Joe Fab on a documentary with the same title that was scheduled to be released in 2021.