Elaine Low

About

Elaine Low is a reporter for The Ankler, covering the evolution of Hollywood’s business model and work culture. She writes the Series Business newsletter, for which she won best online columnist at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.Subscribe to The Ankler podcast to hear her and her colleagues break down the latest entertainment industry news every week.Elaine was previously a senior entertainment reporter for Business Insider, where she explored the shift in Netflix’s corporate culture leading up to the Netflix Correction of 2022, and examined the pandemic’s economic impact on the next generation of Hollywood. Prior to that, she spent several years as a senior reporter for Variety covering the business of television, writing nine cover stories on everything from Bela Bajaria’s global programming strategy to Mindy Kaling’s growing comedy empire to Hollywood’s reckoning over representation amid the Black Lives Matter movement, the last of which won an LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. For nearly five years before that, Elaine was a reporter and producer for Investor’s Business Daily on the media, retail and personal finance beats. She has appeared on CBS News, CNBC, NPR, KTLA, KPCC, Bloomberg and other news programs. At IBD, she co-hosted the “Market Update” and “How To Invest” video series.Prior to her time in a newsroom, she co-created “Annie Undocumented,” inspired by her experience growing up as an undocumented youth. The show won Best Short-Form Web Series at the 2014 New York Television Festival.For clips, visit https://www.elainelow.com