Stephanie Elam Biography
Stephanie Elam is a television journalist from the United States working as a Los Angeles-based CNN correspondent. After a year with KNBC in Los Angeles, Elam returned to the network in 2013.
How old is Stephanie Elam? – Age
She is 47 years old as of 23 January 2021. She was born in 1974 in California, United States.
Stephanie Elam Family – Education
Elam, along with her five other siblings, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, where she grew up. Elam then moved to Washington, D.C. to study broadcast journalism at Howard University, where she graduated in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree.
Is Stephanie Elam Married? – Husband
She is married to Jeff Rush, an investment banker. The couple has a daughter together. She is descended from Guinea Bissau’s people, according to DNA analysis. She is also of European descent.
Stephanie Elam Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Who is Stephanie Elam CNN?
Elam recently covered the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the racist remarks of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and weather-related emergencies such as the EF5 tornado that killed 15 adults and 9 children while destroying Moore, Oklahoma; as well as numerous fires in California, flooding in Arizona, and sub-zero temperatures in the southeastern United States. She was one of the first reporters on the scene after a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport stranded thousands of passengers and killed TSA agent Gerardo Hernandez, the security organization’s first on-duty death since its inception in 2001.
Elam was in charge of reporting on the deaths of 19 firefighters in a wildfire in Prescott, Arizona, informing the world of the single-largest loss of first responders since September 11, 2001. Elam previously worked for KNBC as a weekend evening anchor and general assignment reporter. Her reporting at KNBC focused on emergency preparedness, equipping Southern Californians with information to be earthquake ready, water-safe, and financially informed. She covered the release of John Smith, a man who had been imprisoned for 18 years for a crime he did not commit, the 2012 Golden Globes red carpet, and the Seal Beach murders for KNBC.
Elam was a business news correspondent for CNN in New York before joining KNBC. She also reported for HLN and CNN International. During her time at CNN from 2003 to 2011, Elam covered a wide range of stories, from the worst economic downturn in decades to Michael Jackson’s death. Elam began her career as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires in New York before joining Bridge News, where she assisted in the coordination of seamless 24-hour news coverage among the company’s newsrooms around the world. She transitioned from Bridge News to broadcast news when she began covering corporate earnings for the PBS program Nightly Business Report and for WebFN while working for Bridge News. As New York’s only full-time reporter,
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, as the only full-time reporter in New York for WebFN. From 2005 to 2007, Elam co-hosted Black Enterprise Report, a nationally syndicated show focused on business, career, and financial education.