Diane Lee is an Emmy nominated anchor and two-time Emmy Award winning reporter with more than 20 years of broadcast news experience.

Diane is currently the 7NEWS Consumer Anchor. Her exclusive reports focus on warning them about scams as well as highlighting money saving tips and investigating consumer issues. Diane’s “Here to Help” focus gives her a platform to assist viewers with any issues or questions they have, something that aligns with her desire to uplift others (a value that led her to donate a kidney to a stranger in 2023).

In this episode of Donor Diaries, we get a peek into Diane’s brain, just 3 weeks post-surgery to get a view of what donation looks and feels like right after it happens!  Laurie and Diane discuss some of the surprises that can emerge post donation.  Not just the physical kind, but the mental and emotional ones that sometimes pop up when we attach to specific outcomes for ourselves or our recipients.

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In 2023 Diane won an SCBA Star Award for Investigative Reporting after her story “Before You Sell” helped an Upstate couple save their home. In 2018, she was nominated for Best Anchor among broadcasters throughout the Southeast including the Atlanta market. Prior to that, Diane won a Southeast Regional Emmy Award for a story she did on protecting oneself from identity theft and an Emmy for her investigative story on a debt collection scam.

Before joining WSPA, Diane worked as a weekday morning anchor for FOX23 News in Albany, N.Y., an evening anchor at WYOU, the CBS affiliate in Scranton, Pa, and an Anchor/Reporter at WRNN, a cable news station covering the Hudson Valley counties north of New York City.

In addition to her work in TV news, Diane loves to sing. She performs frequently with the Spartanburg Jazz Ensemble and Spartanburg Community Band. Diane produced a Christmas CD for the Children’s Miracle Network, and the project raised $20,000 for the non-profit in 6 weeks. 

Diane graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She lives in Greenville with her husband, elementary age daughter and middle school age son. She is also an avid jogger and hiker.