Diana Olick

Diana Olick is an Emmy Award winning journalist, currently serving as CNBC's real estate correspondent as well as the author of the "Realty Check" blog on CNBC.com.  She also contributes real estate expertise to The Today Show and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.  Prior to joining CNBC in 2002, Olick spent seven years as a correspondent for CBS News.  She has a BA in Comparative Literature with a minor in Soviet Studies from Columbia College in New York and a Masters Degree in Journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.

In 1998, Olick was reassigned to the New York bureau and then immediately posted to Bahrain for the buildup to a possible second Gulf War.  A year later, she went to Albania to cover the US military buildup during the conflict in Kosovo.

Upon her return, Olick was reassigned to CBS’ Washington bureau and the Capitol Hill beat.  During Campaign 2000, Olick covered the Senate campaign of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and later joined the Bush campaign as a special correspondent for The Early Show.  That fall, she was named Supreme Court correspondent; her first case was Bush v. Gore.

Diana lives in Washington, DC with her husband Scott Gold and their twins, Noah and Madeline.