Alexis Christoforous is an anchor and correspondent for ABC News based
in New York City. Focusing primarily on business and consumer news,
she reports across ABC News programs and platforms, including for
weekend “Good Morning America,” weekend “World News Tonight,”
“GMA3: What You Need to Know,” ABC News Live, ABC Audio and over
200 ABC affiliate TV stations nationwide.

 

Christoforous is the creator and host of “GMA3”’s
“Trailblazing Women” series, which highlights diverse and
game-changing women. She is also the creator and host of “Ask
Alexis,” a weekly segment on ABC News Live in which she answers
viewers’ personal finance questions.

 

Throughout her career, she has covered major news events, including
the Bernie Madoff scandal, the 9/11 attacks, the Great Recession, the
internet bubble and its burst, the housing bubble, and the fall of
Lehman Brothers. She has also reported from the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, and Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway annual
shareholder meeting.

 

Christoforous has conducted interviews with some of the biggest names
in business and politics, including Mary Barra, Marc Benioff, Michael
Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Hillary Clinton, Mark
Cuban, Jack Dorsey, Arianna Huffington, Sheryl Sandberg and Donald
Trump. In addition to her business reporting, Christoforous has
interviewed many celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon,
Madonna, Sara Jessica Parker, Ringo Starr and Tony Bennett.

 

Before joining ABC News, Christoforous was an anchor and correspondent
for Yahoo Finance, where she hosted a daily show featuring market
movers, business leaders and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. She also
reported from the NYSE and the Nasdaq and created and hosted the
weekly podcast “Electionomics.”

 

Before Yahoo Finance, Christoforous spent 15 years at CBS News as an
anchor and correspondent, reporting for all shows, including “CBS
Evening News,” “CBS This Morning” and “CBS Sunday Morning with
Charles Osgood.” She also anchored the network news programs “CBS
Morning News” and “CBS Up to the Minute” and was anchor and
managing editor of the nationally syndicated program “CBS
MarketWatch Weekend.” She served as a fill-in anchor for WCBS-TV,
and her reports were regularly heard on the CBS News Radio network.

 

Christoforous began her business news career at Bloomberg Television
and Radio, where she helped launch Bloomberg Television. She also
anchored the national PBS program “Bloomberg Morning News” and was
Bloomberg’s first correspondent to report live from the New York
Stock Exchange floor. 

 

She enjoys giving back to the community by narrating the award-winning
not-for-profit children’s book series “Loukoumi” and
participating in a children’s celebrity cookbook with proceeds
benefiting the St. Jude Children’s Hospital. She is also very active
in her local Girl Scout troop.

 

A native New Yorker, Christoforous graduated from Fiorello H.
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and advocates
arts in education. She graduated cum laude from New York University
with a degree in broadcast journalism and has served as an adjunct
professor at NYU. She is married and has three children.
