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Adriene Hill

Former Correspondent

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Adriene Hill is a former correspondent covering the business of entertainment.

Prior to joining Marketplace in 2010, she worked at WBEZ in Chicago, first as an intern, then as producer of the local show Eight Forty-Eight, then as news desk editor and reporter.

Adriene received numerous awards for her contribution to Inside & Out, a project she worked on at WBEZ. They include Associated Press Illinois – Best Investigative Series and Best Series/Documentary; Lisagor awards – Online Investigative Reporting and Public Affairs Programming; Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi – Public Service Award; RTDNA Murrow Awards – Best Continuing Coverage; and PRNDI National – Best Multi-Media Presentation, First Place Enterprise/Investigative, First Place Series.

Adriene is a graduate of Amherst College, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and economics. She has a master’s degree in political science from Northwestern University. A native of Celo, N.C., Hill currently resides in Los Angeles, where the weather really is as good as people say it is. 

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Bison may be named the national mammal

by Adriene Hill
May 30, 2012
The burly buffalo has bipartisan Congressional backing to become our national mammal.
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Radiated tuna splashes up in California

by Adriene Hill
May 29, 2012
A bluefin tuna has carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away. But health authorities say it's no threat to the U.S. food supply.
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Your economic predictions: Shadow or no shadow?

by Adriene Hill
May 28, 2012
Last Groundhog Day we asked a couple economists to predict the economic future. Today we asked them to do it again.
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European Debt Crisis

Greece jumps, Spain slumps

by Adriene Hill
May 28, 2012
Markets in Europe are mixed today: Greece is way up and Spain is down. Though both countries face major economic troubles, the level of uncertainty may be the key in determining their market variation.
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Apple CEO's public relations dividend

by Adriene Hill
May 25, 2012
Apple head Tim Cook says he will forgo the $75 million dividend from his company stock. It's a shrewd move at a time when corporate chiefs are under pressure for being over paid.
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Los Angeles joins plastic bag ban

by Adriene Hill
May 24, 2012
L.A. has become the largest U.S. city to prohibit the use of plastic grocery bags. But the paper alternative isn't much better for the environment.
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Why owls make bad pets

by Adriene Hill
May 23, 2012
They may be cute in "Harry Potter" movies. But clueless wizard fans in England are learning the hard way that owls are not like parrots.
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Codebreaker

Kids are smarter than TV execs thought

by Adriene Hill
May 18, 2012
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You're public, so now what?

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May 18, 2012
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Why a single, paper share of Facebook isn’t a good investment

by Adriene Hill
May 18, 2012
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