Dianne Bartlow

R. Dianne Bartlow was a broadcaster and educator who achieved distinction in both fields — first as a director, writer and producer, most notably for the KCBS lifestyle program 2 on the Town, and later as a professor at Cal State Northridge.

At KCBS, Bartlow earned her first Los Angeles Area Emmy nomination for the 1985 KCBS special Capitol Records: The Inside Track. She won the first of her three Emmys in 1993 for the KCBS production Pioneer Women; her second in 1997, for another KCBS project, A Community of Caring; and her third in 2015, for a segment of the CityTV program Santa Monica Cares. She also contributed to the 1990 documentary Wings Over Jordan, We Remember, about the World War II-era Black a cappella gospel choir Wings of Jordan. The documentary is archived in the Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. In addition, she was honored at the NAACP Image Awards for her work on the KCBS special Meeting the Challenge: Inside Black Hollywood.

Bartlow earned two bachelor's degrees and a master's from Cal State Long Beach and a Ph.D. from UC San Diego. She joined the CSUN faculty in 2002 and chaired the Gender and Women's Studies Department from 2013-16. She also contributed to numerous publications and anthologies with an emphasis on race, gender, culture, media studies and more.

Bartlow died September 8, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. She was 67.