Alexis Christoforous
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.
