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Jenny Hill (journalist)

Jenny Hill is a British news reporter and television journalist who works for the BBC. As of September 2014, she is the BBC's Berlin correspondent, having previously worked as a reporter for BBC Breakfast and as a crime correspondent and regional reporter for the North of England region. She has also previously worked as a relief presenter on BBC Look North.

Early life[edit]

Hill was born and grew up on the island of Jersey, where she attended the fee-paying Jersey College for Girls.^[1][2] She first became interested in journalism while working for BBC Radio Jersey.^[3]

Journalism career[edit]

Following postgraduate studies at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Hill joined Central TelevisioninBirmingham as a reporter. When the BBC established its television news service for the Channel Islands she returned home to present the evening bulletins and to work as a reporter, presenter and producer in Jersey and Guernsey. This was followed by a move to Grimsby to work for BBC Look North for the Humber region, after which she moved to Hull,^[3] where she presented the region's breakfast bulletins.^[4]

After working in Hull she moved to the Yorkshire and North Midlands edition of the BBC's Look North, where she was a stand-in presenter and the programme's crime correspondent.^[4] In 2009 Hill became a regional reporter for the North of England on BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel.

Among the high-profile stories Hill worked on for Look North are the 2007 United Kingdom floods and the trial and conviction of the killer of Lesley Molseed.^[4] Nationally she has covered events including the severe winter weather of 2009–10^[5] and 2010–11,^[6][7] and the murder of Joanna Yeates.^[8]

In 2011, she covered the Japanese tsunami 2011, Eurozone crisis and the 2011 London Riots.^[9]

In September 2014, she took up the position of Berlin correspondent for the BBC.^[10]

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• Jenny HillatIMDb