21 Facts About Erica Hill

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Erica Hill serves as a primary substitute anchor and a correspondent.

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Erica Hill co-anchored Weekend Today from 2012 to 2016, following work at CBS since 2008.

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Erica Hill graduated with a BA in Journalism from Boston University in 1998.

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Erica Hill married David Yount on October 15,2005, and on November 25,2006, gave birth to her first son.

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Erica Hill began her journalism career in 1998 as a production assistant for "PC Week Radio", the online news program for PC Week magazine.

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Erica Hill worked at TechTV from 2000 to 2003 as part of the TechTV News program, later named TechLive.

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Erica Hill is noted for her live reporting of the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks when she was working for TechTV.

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Erica Hill joined CNN's Headline News channel in January 2003, working as a general news anchor for different programs.

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Erica Hill co-anchored Prime News Tonight from 2005 to 2006 before becoming anchor of Prime News with Erica Hill from 2006 to 2008.

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Erica Hill co-anchored CNN Tonight during its November 2009 to January 2010 run.

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On September 22,2008, Erica Hill was named the new co-anchor of the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS after filling in on a temporary basis six weeks earlier.

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Erica Hill's first show as the permanent anchor was on September 27,2008.

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CBS announced on January 13,2010, that Erica 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 Erica Hill to the program.

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On June 29 and July 5,2010, Erica Hill anchored the CBS Evening News in Katie Couric's absence.

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Erica Hill anchored the CBS Evening News while Scott Pelley was in Afghanistan on October 4,2011.

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On November 30,2010, Erica Hill was named co-anchor of CBS' The Early Show, effective January 3,2011.

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On July 26,2012, CBS announced that Erica Hill would be replaced by Norah O'Donnell on CBS This Morning in late 2012.

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Erica 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.

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NBC announced on November 1,2012, that starting November 3,2012, Erica Hill would join Weekend Today as co-anchor and would serve as an NBC News national correspondent.

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On June 6,2016, Erica Hill was announced as rejoining HLN as the anchor of a daytime news program, and additionally contribute to CNN.

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Erica Hill will leave her HLN show On The Story which originated from New York City.