Elaine Low is a staff writer at The Ankler, covering the evolution of Hollywood’s business model and work culture in the streaming age. She writes the weekly Series Business newsletter, for which she won best online columnist at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
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 Netflix’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.
