Real Estate Correspondent
CNBC

Diana 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, Diana spent seven years as a correspondent for CBS News.

Diana began her career as a local news reporter at WABI-TV. She joined CBS in 1994 as a New York-based correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and The Early Show. She also contributed pieces to 48 Hours and Sunday Morning. In 1995, she was assigned to cover the Midwest as a Dallas bureau correspondent. During that time, she also took a temporary assignment in CBS’ Moscow bureau, where she chronicled the brief presidential campaign of Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 1998, she 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, Diana was reassigned to CBS’ Washington bureau and the Capitol Hill beat. During Campaign 2000, she 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.

She has a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature with a minor in Soviet studies from Columbia College in New York and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.

Twitter: @diana_olick