Stephanie Elam

Stephanie Elam is a correspondent for CNN based in Los Angeles. Elam made her return to the network in 2013 after spending a year with KNBC Los Angeles. Prior to rejoining CNN, Elam served as a weekend evening anchor and general assignment reporter for KNBC. Before KNBC, Elam was business news correspondent for CNN based in New York. Elam's career began in New York as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires before joining Bridge News where she helped coordinate seamless 24-hour news coverage among the organizations newsrooms worldwide. While working for Bridge News, she made the transition to broadcast news when she began covering corporate earnings for the PBS program Nightly Business Report and for WebFN. As the only full-time reporter in New York for WebFN, she anchored Market on the Close, a one-hour WebFN program that tracked the stock market in the last hour of trading and First Business, a weekly syndicated business program Elam co-hosted Black Enterprise Report, a nationally syndicated program focused on business, career and financial education from 2005 to 2007. Elam earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Howard University.