He is currently a White House reporter for POLITICO. Previously a White House reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he covered the 2016 presidential campaign for The Wall Street Journal.[7] He joined the WSJ's Washington bureau in March 2017.[5] He previously worked as a national reporter for Politico.[8] He joined Politico in the spring of 2016.[5] Prior to that, he covered Colorado politics for nearly a decade at KDVR, and its sister station KWGN-TV, in Denver, Colorado.[7][9] While in Denver, he hosted, #COpolitics: From the Source, a weekly interview show.[9] In 2013 and 2014, he wrote for 5280 magazine.[10]
Stokols' first marriage ended in divorce.[1] On September 15, 2018, he married Elena Cecilia Schneider in an interfaith ceremony at the Augsburg Lutheran Church in Winston-Salem, N.C.[1] They met in 2015 at Politico, where they both worked at the time.[1]
^ abcdef"Elena Schneider, Eli Stokols". The New York Times. September 16, 2018. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-10. The groom, 39, is a White House reporter in Washington for The Los Angeles Times. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia.
^"Eli Stokols". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-06-09.