Erica Hill

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Erica Ruth Hill (born July 20, 1976, in Connecticut) is an American TV news presenter who currently works for CNN and CNN Headline News. She anchors Prime News with Erica Hill on Headline News at 6:00 p.m. ET as part of the network's "Headline Prime" primetime lineup. Hill previously contributed news updates to Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN before being replaced by Kiran Chetry.

Hill began her journalism career as a production assistant for "PC Week Radio", the online news program for PC Week magazine. She later worked for TechTV (previously ZDTV) as the anchor of its TechLive program and its earlier incarnation TechTV News/ZDTV News. Erica is noted for her live reporting of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when she was working for TechTV.

She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Journalism from Boston University. She is also fluent in French. Hill married David Yount on October 15, 2005,[1] and on November 25, 2006 gave birth to her first son, Weston Robert.[2] Hill returned from maternity leave on February 12, 2007.

In 2006, Hill was listed at #35 in People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People issue.

[edit] References

Symkus, Ed (2006-09-27). A view of the Hill: Is the CNN anchor the future of broadcast news?. Somerville Journal. Archived from the original on 2006-12-03. Retrieved on October 21, 2006.

  1. ^ Meadows, Amy (Summer 2006). "Erica Hill & David Yount" (PDF). I Do For Brides 11 (3): 64-65. Retrieved on 2006-12-12. 
  2. ^ "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees (transcript)", CNN, 2006-12-08. Retrieved on December 9, 2006.

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