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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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The effect of higher gas prices on our decisions

by Adriene Hill
Feb 27, 2012
How do gas prices affect our short-term decisions in driving, or our longer-term decisions in purchasing vehicles? Fortune magazine's Allan Sloan looks at previous trends.
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Home improvement stores report profits

by Adriene Hill
Feb 27, 2012
Warmer weather helped boost sales for outdoors and spring planning. But what does it say about the U.S. housing picture?
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Trying to save missions to Mars

by Adriene Hill
Feb 27, 2012
Mars researchers are meeting with NASA today to figure out if there's a way to pay for future trips to the red planet.
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College educated adults reaches 30 percent in U.S.

by Adriene Hill
Feb 24, 2012
The U.S. has reached a major education milestone. For the fist time ever, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults have a college degree. In 1998, less than a quarter of the population had graduated.
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Michael Jordan defends his name against Chinese company

by Adriene Hill
Feb 24, 2012
Basketball star Michael Jordan is suing a Chinese company that makes sportswear. He says Qiodan is using his name without permission, and has filed suit in a Chinese court.
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What retail earnings are telling us about the economy

by Adriene Hill
Feb 23, 2012
This week we're finding out how department stores have been faring. Macy's and Saks are in good shape; today, Kohl's says its yearly sales rose. Department stores can tell us a lot about the health of the economy -- at least part of it.
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How the Grammys and the Oscars are different

by Adriene Hill
Feb 23, 2012
It has been reported that actor Sacha Baron Cohen hopes to attend this year's Oscar ceremony dressed in character. Event organizers are so keen on the idea.
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NASA in the market for some good eaters

by Adriene Hill
Feb 22, 2012
The agency wants to figure out how it would feed astronauts on any future mission to Mars, so it needs people to try to cook and eat astronaut food for four long months.
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The background on corporate taxes

by Adriene Hill
Feb 22, 2012
The Obama administration could soon propose a lower, flat corporate tax rate. But how do corporate taxes really work?
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Apple to build new data center in Oregon

by Adriene Hill
Feb 22, 2012
Apple is buying 160 acres to build a new data center. Amazon, Google and Facebook already own land in the state for their own server farms.
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