Elli Stai is a well known Greek journalist with a successful career in both the press and broadcasting media. She has been the host of many popular talk shows and a main news anchor for most of the Greek broadcasters. She has won the Award of
Best Greek News Anchor 5 times.
She was born in Athens and studied Law in the Athens Law School and Political Science in Paris. She worked briefly as a lawyer but soon moved into journalism and began writing for Greek newspapers. She earned her first front-page story with an exclusive interview with Gianni Agnelli, the legendary Fiat owner.
Her broadcasting career began in the public broadcasting corporation, ERT where, from 1982-1989, she anchored, the flagship evening news programme. She went on to work as a Brussels correspondent on European affairs for the Greek radio station FLASH. Upon her return to Athens, Stai hosted her own radio show for the Municipal radio station Radio Athens 98,4.
In 1993, Stai began working for the Skai media group in both radio and television, where she anchored the main news program, introducing, a more contemporary style of news presentation with live commentary and analysis.
Between 1995 and 1997, she hosted the talk show “Ellispontos” for Mega Channel and then, for the next two years, Stai was the main presenter for the evening news at Star Channel.
In 1999, she began working as a presenter for the Greek TV channel ANT1. She presented the very popular political show “Me ta matia tis Ellis” (Under Elli’s gaze).
She went on to host it for seven years during which she ‘grilled’ a great number of Greek politicians, entertainers and celebrities. For the three years leading up to October 4 th 2006, she presented the evening news programme for ANT1 Channel,
which, during this period, dominated the Greek TV ratings.
In February 2007, Elli Stai returned to the Greek TV broadcaster Mega Channel as an analyst for their evening news. She presented her own weekly news and analysis TV
show called “Elli” until June 2007 when she moved to the TV station ALPHA where she appeared in political talk shows and co-anchored the main news.
In December 2009, Stai created her own news and opinion portal www.ellispoint.gr .
In January 2011, she returned to the pubic broadcaster and the flagship NET television channel as the main news anchorwoman and host of the popular politics
and current affairs show, “Netweek”. On June 11 2013, she anchores the last main news bulletin before the sudden shutdown of the broadcaster.
Since January 2014, she has been president and editor-in-chief of the news and web- TV portal The TOC, where she hosts the daily news show “Newsroom”.
From 2018 to 2019, she was the editor and anchor of OPEN TV’s main news bulletin. She continues her collaboration with the network to this day as a political commentator.