The industrialist family the Elliots are best known for their being media moguls. Not only are they the sole owners of the lucrative tabloid The Gotham Bugle, but they are principal stockholders at The Gotham Gazette and the radio station WGOT. Additionally, they own a syndicate of newspapers and radio stations all up the Eastern Seaboard from Baltimore to Boston.

The Elliot family has smaller holdings in the railroad, meat packing, and paper products.

Blair Elliot is the official publisher of the Gotham Bugle and several other Elliot papers, but beyond watching the profits,ecstasy out of day-to-day operations. Stephen Elliot is the Chairman of Elliot International, the holding company behind the media empire. Samantha Elliot is the president of WGOT.

Chance Elliot who is from a more distant branch of the family, is currently District Attorney for Gotham.