Senior Real Estate And Climate Correspondent
CurrentDiana Olick is an Emmy and Gracie Award winning journalist, who launched both CNBC's real estate and climate beats. She launched and leads Property Play, a real estate vertical with subscription newsletter, video podcast and live events. She also founded the real estate page on CNBC.com and is its primary author. Olick contributes real estate and climate expertise to MSNBC, NBC News Now and NBC Nightly News. Prior to joining CNBC in 2002, Olick spent 7 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. Olick began her career as a local news reporter at WABI-TV. Bangor, ME, WZZM-TV, Grand Rapids, MI and KIRO-TV in Seattle, WA. 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. During that time, she covered such stories as the World Trade Center conspiracy trial and the Boston abortion clinic shooting. In 1995, CNBC assigned Olick to cover the Midwest as a Dallas bureau correspondent. In the three years she was there, she covered all forms of natural disaster, the JonBenet Ramsey murder, and was the exclusive correspondent for the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols. 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, 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.
