Erica Hill

Erica Ruth Hill-Yount (born July 20, 1976) is an American journalist who, as of 2024, worked for CNN. She served as a primary substitute anchor and a correspondent. She co-anchored Weekend Today from 2012 to 2016, following work at CBS since 2008.

Personal life Hill was born in Clinton, Connecticut, She graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1998.

Hill has been an Americares board member since 2020.

Career Hill began 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 also 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, later named TechLive. From 2000 to 2001, she served as 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 attacks when she was working for TechTV. Her daily new program, On the Story with Erica Hill, premiered in October 2016.

Back to CNN On April 19, 2018, it was announced that Erica Hill would return to CNN as lead fill-in anchor and national correspondent. She left her HLN show On the Story which originated from New York City. Former Weekend Express anchor Lynn Smith was named as host in March 2019.

Career timeline 2000–2003: TechTV News anchor and reporter 2003–2010: CNN 2005–2006: Prime News Tonight co-anchor 2005–2010: Anderson Cooper 360° news updates anchor 2006–2008: Prime News with Erica Hill anchor 2009–2010: CNN Tonight co-anchor 2008–2012: CBS News 2008–2010: The Early Show Saturday co-anchor 2010–2012: The Early Show weekday anchor & news anchor January 2012 – September 2012: CBS This Morning co-anchor September 2012 – November 1, 2012: CBS News special correspondent 2012–2016: NBC News November 3, 2012 – April 3, 2016: Weekend Today co-anchor November 3, 2012 – 2016: NBC News National correspondent 2013–2016: Dateline NBC contributing anchor & correspondent 2013–2016: NBC Nightly News substitute anchor 2012–2016: Today substitute co-anchor 2015–2016: MSNBC anchor & correspondent 2016: NBC Nightly News Saturday anchor 2015: 90 Day Fiancé - ‘Tell All’ host (S3E11), aired 11/01/2015 2016: Sister Wives season 10 'Tell All' host 2016–2018: HLN & CNN 2016–2018: HLN On the Story anchor 2016–2018: CNN contributor 2018–present: CNN 2018–present: CNN lead fill-in anchor & national correspondent