Diane Winston is an associate professor and Knight Center chair in media and religion at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is a national authority on religion and the media as a journalist and a scholar. She has won numerous press association awards and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her work in Raleigh, Dallas and Baltimore. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.