She began her career in financial news as a copyeditor for Dow Jones Newswires in New York City. After four years with Dow Jones, she joined Bridge News and traveled to London, and Mumbai, India to coordinate 24-hour news coverage between Bridge’s newsrooms worldwide. Elam’s broadcast career took off when she began reporting on corporate earnings for Nightly Business Report, the most-watched daily news program in the country, which airs on PBS. She was also one of a select group of Bridge News journalists who reported regularly on WebFN, a Chicago-based streaming financial news Website. WebFN eventually hired Elam, making her its only full-time New York reporter.
Elam has since anchored a variety of news programs, including First Business, a nationally syndicated, weekday morning financial news program, and Market on the Close, a live, one-hour show airing on WebFN that reported on the stock market. Elam’s personal finance updates can also be seen on CNN, CNN Headline News, and CNN International.
*The BLACK ENTERPRISE REPORT, launched in November 2003, is a syndicated television series focused on African American financial and personal empowerment. The weekly, half-hour series provides minority business coverage, investment tips, career guidance, personal finance advice, entrepreneur profiles, stock market updates, and lifestyle information to viewers across the country. The show is produced in collaboration with Chicago-based Central City Productions.
