Recently award winner at the 2010 Southern California Journalism Awards - Magazine Feature category
PO!NT, was established in 2002 as BATES RATES NEWS by Dianne Bates, a Los Angeles-based culture journalist whose writing and/or photography has appeared on the covers of the LOS ANGELES TIMES Calendar section, FLAUNT magazine, LA Architect magazine, LUXURY LIFE AND STYLE magazines (WESTSIDE and SOUTHBAY magazines), CITY AND SHORE magazine. She has also contributed to LA TIMES, Variety, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, Where LA magazine, Malibu Magazine, RPM, Performance Plus, and Music Connection. She is the former Visual Arts Editor of the Tacoma Reporter.
Dianne was one of the early Internet TV reporters on NETTHISTV.com. She served as a judge in the 2004 California Mid-State Wine Competition and associate judge in the 2006 Central Coast Wine Competition.
She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club.
Her architectural photography was recently accepted for a MOPLA group show at Smashbox Studios sponsored by the Lucie Foundation.
Dianne serves as Advisory Board Liason for the non-profit Malibu Friends of Music, established by composer/violinist Maria Newman and conductor/violist Scott Hosfeld.
She is currently co-writing a book with James Winfree, CRIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE, about the gay scene and record business in Hollywood from the mid-1950's through the early 1980's. She is also co-author of the screenplay, LOGANSPORT.
