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Erica Hill, co-anchor of TODAY's weekend editions

Erica Hill was named co-anchor of Weekend TODAY and NBC News national correspondent in October 2012. Hill will co-anchor both Saturday and Sunday editions of Weekend TODAY alongside Lester Holt.Prior to joining NBC News, Hill served as co-host of CBS News' “CBS This Morning” in 2012 and "The Early Show" in 2011. She was news anchor of “The Early Show” in 2010, while also co-hosting "The Ea
Erica Hill
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Erica Hill was named co-anchor of Weekend TODAY and NBC News national correspondent in October 2012. Hill will co-anchor both Saturday and Sunday editions of Weekend TODAY alongside Lester Holt.

Prior to joining NBC News, Hill served as co-host of CBS News' “CBS This Morning” in 2012 and "The Early Show" in 2011. She was news anchor of “The Early Show” in 2010, while also co-hosting "The Early Show Saturday" from 2008 to 2010. Hill joined "The Early Show Saturday" while working at CNN, where she served as anchor and correspondent for CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" from 2008 to 2010.

During her time at CBS News and CNN, Hill covered a wide range of domestic and international stories, including the shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona; the death of Osama Bin Laden; the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; the growing refugee crisis in Dadaab, Kenya; and the famine in East Africa. Hill has interviewed numerous newsmakers and world leaders including President Obama, former President Clinton, and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Hill spent seven years at CNN, joining the network at its Atlanta headquarters in 2003. She served in various roles at CNN and HLN, anchoring breaking news coverage and reporting on major events including the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, the war in Iraq, the Mumbai terror attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. From 2006 to 2008, Hill was the anchor of HLN's "Prime News with Erica Hill", a live two-hour news and interview program. She co-anchored "Prime News Tonight" from 2005 to 2006, and served as national correspondent for CNN Newsource in Washington in 2004.

From 2001 to 2003, Hill was as co-anchor and correspondent for TechTV's daily news program, "Tech Live", where she anchored live coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and co-produced and anchored a number of specials for the network, including the debate surrounding embryonic stem cell research. She joined the network in 1998 when it was known as ZDTV, and helped launch its online radio operations, ZDTV Radio. Hill began her journalism career at PC Week where she wrote, produced and edited interviews, newscasts, and streaming events for the magazine's online news radio station, "PC Week Radio".

Hill graduated summa cum laude from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in journalism. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons.

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Updated June 4, 2013. Originally posted Nov. 2, 2012.