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Stephanie Elam

Stephanie Elam is a CNN business news correspondent. Her reports can be seen on CNN, HLN and CNN International. She also contributes to American Morning and often anchors CNN Saturday’s Your Bottom Line.

Elam joined CNN’s Money Team in 2003, and has reported during the most challenging financial era of our lifetime brought on by the subprime crisis in 2008 and the impending failure of several big corporations. In recent years, Elam has also reported from the scene of significant events such as Pope Benedict XVI visit to New York City in 2008, Michael Jackson’s memorial ceremony at the Apollo in 2009, and she also covered Captain Richard Phillips’ family in Vermont when he was taken hostage off the coast of Somalia.

Elam began her career in financial news as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires in New York City. Next, she joined Bridge News, an international news service, where she helped coordinate seamless, 24-hour news coverage among Bridge's newsrooms worldwide. In 2000, she traveled to London and Mumbai, India, to help establish overnight coverage.

Soon after joining Bridge News, Elam began her shift to broadcast news by covering corporate earnings for Nightly Business Report, PBS's business news program. She also joined a select group of Bridge journalists reporting regularly for WebFN, a streaming financial news site. Eventually, Elam became the site's only full-time reporter in New York. She was tasked with covering the markets' daily activity and reported on Wall Street’s recovery from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the September 11, 2001, attacks damaged the building that housed WebFN’s New York offices in the financial district.

While reporting from the floor, she also interviewed the NYSE's wide range of visitors -- from chief executives and politicians to music moguls and Olympians. Elam is also the former anchor of First Business, a nationally syndicated, weekday morning financial news program and Market on the Close, WebFN’s live, one-hour show that tracked the stock market in the last hour of trading. She’s also previously co-hosted Black Enterprise Report, a nationally syndicated program focused on business, career and financial education.

Elam graduated cum laude from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism.