PERSON: Erika Hill

Anchor and National Correspondent

Erica Ruth Hill-Yount is an American journalist who, as of 2024, works for CNN. She serves as a primary substitute anchor and a correspondent. She co-anchored Weekend Today from 2012 to 2016, following work at CBS since 2008.

Hill was born in Clinton, Connecticut the daughter of Cheryl and Steven Holmes Hill. 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. Hill married David Yount on October 15, 2005, and on November 25, 2006, gave birth to her first son, and a second son on March 23, 2010

Hill has been an Americares board member since 2020.

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, 2001 terrorist attacks when she was working for TechTV.

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