Erica Hill

News Anchor 

Erica Hill is news anchor of "The Early Show" and co-anchor of the "The Early Show on Saturday" for CBS News.

Hill served as news anchor for CNN/U.S. Hill has also served as a news anchor and correspondent for CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," as well as a substitute anchor for Cooper and Campbell Brown since January 2008. She also anchored "CNN Tonight." Prior to that, she was the anchor of "Prime News with Erica Hill," a live two-hour interview and news program on CNN Headline News (2006-08), and a news anchor and substitute anchor on CNN. Hill joined CNN Headline News in 2003 as an anchor on the network's daily shows before she became co-anchor of "Prime News Tonight" (2005-06). She was as a national correspondent for "CNN Newsource" in its Washington bureau (2004).

While at CNN, Hill covered many breaking stories, including the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, the war in Iraq, and the 2003 blackout that affected a large portion of the Northeast. She reported from Mississippi as part of CNN's coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Before joining CNN, Hill served as co-anchor and correspondent for ZDTV's "Tech Live," a 30-minute daily news magazine (2001-03), from where she anchored live coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She also served as a reporter for "Tech TV News," covering a wide variety of technology stories, and co-produced news specials for the network on several topics, including the debate surrounding embryonic stem cell research, the technology behind the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2001 Academy Awards (2000-01).

Hill began her journalism career at PC Week as a production assistant for "PC Week Radio," the magazine's online news radio station (1998).

She was graduated summa cum laude from Boston University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. She lives in New York City.