Diane Winston has worked as a reporter for several of the nation's leading newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun,Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald and The News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (1999) and co-editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture (2002).
She has directed religion and media projects at New York University and Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University, an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and B.A. from Brandeis University.