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Erica Hill Profile
Erica Hill is an American journalist who is presently working at CNN. She serves as a primary substitute anchor and a correspondent. Additionally, she co-anchored weekend today from 2012 to 2016, following work at CBS since 2008.
Erica Hill Age
Hill is 47 years old as of 2023, she was born on 20 July 1976, in Clinton, Connecticut, United States of America. Furthermore, she celebrates her birthday on 20th July every year.
Erica Hill Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Erica Hill Family
Hill is the daughter of Cheryl and Steven Holmes Hill. Moreover, she graduated with a BA in Journalism from Boston University in 1998. She is a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi. She is fluent in French.
Erica Hill Husband
Hill is happily married to David Yount, the couple tied the knot on October 15, 2005. David is a lawyer and businessman, who is known best for being the founder and CEO of LicenseLogix. Erica and her husband were blessed with their first child Weston Robert Yount on November 2006, and their second son Sawyer Steven Yount on 23rd March 2010.
Erica Hill Career
Hill started her journalism career in 1998 as a production assistant for “PC Week Radio”, the online news program for PC Week magazine. During this time, she likewise worked as a conference coordinator for the Software Publishers Association Europe. She worked at TechTV from 2000 to 2003 as part of the TechTV News program, subsequently named TechLive. From 2000 to 2001, she served as a reporter, and from 2001 to 2003, she was co-anchor and correspondent for the program. She is noted for her live reporting of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when she was working for TechTV.
Erica Hill CNN
Hill joined CNN’s Headline News channel in January 2003, working as a general news anchor for different programs. In 2004, she joined CNN Newsource as a national correspondent. She co-anchored Prime News Tonight from 2005 to 2006 before becoming anchor of Prime News with Erica from 2006 to 2008. She started providing news updates for Anderson Cooper 360° (AC360°) in April 2005 and was named a full-time member in February 2008. Hill also co-anchored CNN Tonight during its November 2009 to January 2010 run.
Erica Hill CBS News
On September 22, 2008, Hill was named the new co-anchor of the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS after filling in temporarily six weeks earlier. Her first show as the permanent anchor was on September 27, 2008. She continued to appear on AC360° for CNN until January 8, 2010, when it was announced on AC360° that she would be leaving CNN immediately to join CBS News. CBS declared on January 13, 2010, that Hill would be replacing Russ Mitchell on the weekday edition of The Early Show the following week, and on January 18, the Early Show cast officially welcomed Hill to the program. On June 29 and July 5, 2010, Hill anchored the CBS Evening News in Katie Couric’s absence. With Maggie Rodriguez on maternity leave, Hill was also the primary female anchor on The Early Show in June 2010.
Hill also anchored the CBS Evening News while Scott Pelley was in Afghanistan on October 4, 2011. On November 30, 2010, Erica Hill was named co-anchor of CBS’ The Early Show, effective January 3, 2011. Additionally, on November 15, 2011, CBS announced that Charlie Rose and Gayle King would join Hill as co-anchors of a new CBS News morning program, CBS This Morning, launching January 9, 2012. Moreover, on July 26, 2012, CBS announced that Hill would be replaced by Norah O’Donnell on CBS This Morning in late 2012. Hill served as a Special Correspondent for CBS News, from September 2012 to November 1, 2012, contributing to all CBS broadcasts although she never appeared on-air in this role.
Erica Hill NBC News
NBC announced on November 1, 2012, that starting November 3, 2012, Hill would join Weekend Today as co-anchor and would serve as an NBC News national correspondent. NBC News president Steve Capus said, “Erica’s extraordinary track record as a journalist has proven that she can cover everything from hard news to pop culture with ease and professionalism. She’s a fantastic addition to Weekend Today and I’m delighted to welcome her to NBC News.”[12] On April 3, 2016, Hill announced she was leaving the Weekend Today show to spend more time with family, but continue daily news reporting on MSNBC and NBC Nightly News.
Erica Hill Salary
She has an estimated annual salary of $30,000 to $80,000 from her career at CNN.
Erica Hill Net Worth
Hill has an estimated annual Networth of $ 1 million to $5 million earned from her career as an Anchor and National Correspondent.
Erica Hill Social Media Platforms
Hill is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 84.6k followers on Twitter, 45.6k followers on Instagram, and 99k followers on Facebook.
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