Erica Hill

Award-winning journalist Erica Hill serves as a CNN anchor and national correspondent. She contributes to CNN, CNN International, and CNN Max.

Throughout her wide-ranging career, Hill has led coverage of major domestic and international news stories from both the field and the studio, including U.S. presidential elections, a global pandemic, mass shootings, hurricanes, and more. She was a lead correspondent for CNN’s pandemic coverage and co-hosted six CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall specials for families about COVID-19, one of which earned the network’s first-ever Daytime Emmy Award nomination. 

Prior, Hill was co-anchor of NBC’s Weekend TODAY. She also served as an anchor and correspondent for the network, contributing to TODAY, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. Previously, she spent several years at CBS News as co-host of the network’s flagship morning broadcast.

Hill first joined CNN and HLN in 2003, as an anchor and technology correspondent. She began her career as a production assistant at the former cable network ZDTV / TechTV, and quickly worked her way up to producer, before becoming an anchor and reporter for the network.

Hill was part of the NBC News team that won a 2013 Peabody Award for the network’s cross-platform effort, “In Plain Sight: Poverty in America”; in 2015, the Alliance for Women in Media honored her with the Gracie Award for Outstanding Correspondent. She serves on the Board of Directors at Americares, and the Dean’s Advisory Board for Boston University’s College of Communication. Hill is based in CNN’s New York City bureau.