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Diana Olick
DIANA OLICK
CNBC Real Estate Reporter


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.

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,Olick was assigned to cover the Midwest as a Dallas bureau correspondent.  In the three years she was there, she covered all forms of natural disaster, the crash of TWA Flight 800,the JonBenet Ramsey murder mystery, 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 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.


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        Government officials claim the refi plan has been extremely successful, far moreso, they admit, than the modification program. But clearly it wasn't doing enough, or they wouldn't have widened the parameters of elligibility.

    • A Bigger Housing Bailout for Obama 01 Jul 2009

        That's right, your loan can be a full 25 percent more than the current value of your home, and Fannie and Freddie will gladly buy and/or back your new refi.

    • Home Prices: Are We There Yet? 30 Jun 2009

        A lot of folks are parsing the latest S&P Case Shiller home price report out today, and debating whether some month-to-month increases are proof of home price stabilization nationwide. I frankly think it’s impossible to say anything nationwide, because a lot of different markets are reacting very differently. That may seem an incredibly prosaic thing to say, but I think an awful lot of smart folks often lose sight of that.

    • Treasury: Jingle Mail A Myth 26 Jun 2009

        An interesting aside in the interview I did today with Michael Barr, the Treasury Department’s Asst. Secretary for Financial Institutions. Barr is the architect of the Administration’s Making Home Affordable program, i.e. the housing bailout, and this was his first on-camera interview since he was sworn in as a Treasury official.

    • How Bad Is The Housing Market? One Man's Tale 25 Jun 2009

        I received the following email from Jeff in San Diego and was so struck by how reasonable, matter-of-fact and truly troubling it is. I know it's California, but I believe it's an example of a spreading trend nationwide...

    • Appraisal Code Sparks Huge Response 24 Jun 2009

        Hundreds of mortgage industry representatives, from small and large shops, sent in stories of botched appraisals, of allegedly negligent appraisal management companies, and of lost deals that are so necessary to recovery in this fragile housing market.


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