Edwin Diamond; Author of Books on Media

Edwin Diamond, 72, author and journalist who chronicled and commented on the news media. Diamond, who for the past year had been working in digital journalism on ABC News’ World Wide Web site, wrote 11 books, including “White House to Your House: Media and Politics in Virtual America.” His last book was “Behind the Times: Inside the New York Times.” Other books were “The Tin Kazoo: Television, Politics and the News,” “Good News, Bad News,” “Sign Off: The Last Days of Television” and “Jimmy Carter: An Interpretive Biography.” Over the years, Diamond wrote award-winning articles for Newsweek, Harpers, Esquire, New York magazine and other magazines and newspapers in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. He was a founding senior editor of the Washington Journalism Review and contributed articles to the Columbia Journalism Review. Diamond was a professor of journalism at New York University in New York City for the last 13 years and lectured frequently in political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was in the Army Special Services during World War II, earning a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and a Purple Heart, and served as an intelligence officer in Washington during the Korean War. A native of Chicago, Diamond attended the University of Chicago. On Thursday in a New York hospital of heart failure.