Diana Jean Schemo

DIANA JEAN SCHEMO is a journalist and foreign correspondent with more than twenty-five years at the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun. She is the author of Skies to Conquer: A Year Inside the Air Force Academy.

Schemo was the first woman assigned overseas for the Baltimore Sun, heading its West European bureau in Paris and later Berlin, and served as the Times bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro from 1995 to 1999. The Times nominated her education coverage for a Pulitzer Prize in 2003, and she is a three-time winner of the New York Times Publisher’s Award. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism.

When she’s not writing, Schemo serves as co-founder and executive editor of 100Reporters and founder and co-director of Double Exposure, an investigative film festival and symposium.

Diana is based in Washington, D.C.

Diana Jean Schemo’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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