| Jenny Hill | |
| Credits: | Central News BBC Channel Islands BBC Look North BBC Breakfast |
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.
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]
Following postgraduate studies at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Hill joined Central Television in Birmingham 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]