Stephanie Elam

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Stephanie Elam was born on January 23 1974 and is a CNN business news correspondent for Headline News and CNN International.

Background

Elam was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area along with her three brothers and two sisters. She grew up in Saratoga, California and attended Saratoga High School. After graduating from Saratoga High School, Elam moved to Washington D.C. to attend Howard University. While in college, Elam joined Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., served as chief copy editor of the school newspaper, "The Hilltop", and was a member of the Howard University swim team. She graduated cum laude with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1995.

Career

Elam is a CNN business news correspondent. In addition to her reports 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.

External links

* [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/elam.stephanie.html CNN Stephanie Elam]
* [http://www.blackenterprise.com/aboutusopen.asp?id=1643 Black Enterprise Report]