Stephanie Elam is a CNN business news correspondent. Her reports can be seen on CNN/U.S., Headline News and CNN International. She also contributes to American Morning.
Previously, Elam was the co-host of Black Enterprise Report, a nationally syndicated program focused on business, career and financial education.
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, 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 on WebFN, a streaming financial news site. Eventually, WebFN hired Elam, making her the site's only full-time reporter in New York.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed access to WebFN's World Financial Center offices, Elam began reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, covering the markets' closely watched daily activity and interviewing 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, a live, one-hour show on WebFN that tracked the stock market in the last hour of trading.
Elam graduated cum laude from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism.
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