Elaine Low

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, contributes to the weekly Ankler podcast and regularly guests on NPR affiliate LAist 89.3FM.

She was previously a senior entertainment reporter for Business Insider, where she explored the shift in Netflix’s corporate culture leading up to its surprising wave of layoffs in 2022, and examined how the pandemic’s economic impact on support staffers and young industry workers may have produced a “lost generation” of Hollywood creatives.

Prior to that, she spent several years as a senior reporter for Variety covering the business of television, with a focus on media strategy and executive leadership. She wrote or co-bylined nine Variety cover stories, covering Netflix’s global programming strategy, Mindy Kaling’s growing comedy empire, Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn’s fashion-meets-e-commerce series at Amazon Studios, and the entertainment industry’s reckoning over representation in the wake of national Black Lives Matter protests, the last of which won a Los Angeles 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 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