Stephanie Elam is leaving after more than 20 years at the network across two different stints, ending a run that included work as a Los Angeles-based correspondent in recent years. She did not say what comes next.
“For more than 20 years I’ve been in the orbit developing and delivering news stories on everything from the environment and entertainment to business and breaking news of all kinds,” Elam said in remarks released via social media. “I’m so proud of my career.”
Elam’s departure closes out a career that moved through some of ’s busiest years. During her first stretch at the network, from 2003 to 2011, she was a New York-based business news correspondent and also reported for HLN and International. She later rejoined in 2013 after spending a few years at KNBC.
In those years, Elam covered market downturns and the death of Michael Jackson. In her second run at the network, she reported on the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and the death of Prince. said she brought “clarity, credibility, and heart” to every story she touched over her two decades there, and called her a trusted voice with a natural ability to connect with audiences.
That range was no accident. Elam began her journalism career in New York as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires before joining Bridge News, where she covered corporate earnings for PBS’s “Nightly Business Report” and WebFN. She went on to anchor “Market on the Close,” a one-hour stock market program, as well as “First Business” and “Black Enterprise Report,” and earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Howard University.
For now, the most consequential fact is also the simplest one: after more than two decades, one of ’s most versatile correspondents is out, and Elam has not yet said where she is headed next.
