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Adriene Hill

Former Correspondent

SHORT BIO

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. 

Latest Stories (1,071)

Republican Congressman Bob Gibbs on the payroll tax cut

by Adriene Hill
Dec 21, 2011
We hear from one member of the U.S. House as to why he did not vote for the two month payroll tax cut extension.
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Mid-day Update

Mid-day Extra: Are payroll tax cuts bad for business?

by Adriene Hill
Dec 21, 2011
We hear more from Republican Congressman Bob Gibbs on why he decided to not vote for the two month payroll tax extension that was passed in the Senate.
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Mid-day Update

Mid-day Extra: Is vanity good for a city's economy?

by Jeremy Hobson and Adriene Hill
Dec 20, 2011
A recent poll has found Miami to be the vainest city in the U.S., but could that be a good thing?
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Japan places big order for Lockheed Martin fighter planes

by Adriene Hill
Dec 20, 2011
Japan will replace its aging fighter jets with 42 new planes from the U.S. company Lockheed Martin, on the heels of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
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The AT&T merger's trust issues

by Adriene Hill
Dec 20, 2011
The government put up road blocks to the AT&T and T-Mobile merger than eventually led to its demise. What was everyone so afraid of?
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What was the business story of 2011?

by Adriene Hill
Dec 19, 2011
Allan Sloan offers his thoughts on the business story of the year, and what we'll be talking about 2012.
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North Korea will go about 'business as usual'

by Adriene Hill
Dec 19, 2011
With inflation soaring, the last few years have been particularly difficult for the North Korean people, and that isn't likely to change right away
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Campaign Trail

Mid-day Extra: MTV's Choose or Lose gets lost

by Jeremy Hobson and Adriene Hill
Dec 19, 2011
After 20 years, MTV's long running campaign to get youth voters to the poles is getting revamped -- starting with the name
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BBC World Service

What Kim Jong-Il's successor could do for North Korea

by Adriene Hill
Dec 19, 2011
Now that Kim Jong-Il is no longer the leader, questions remain as to what direction his son Kim Jong-Un will to to help, or hurt, his country.
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U.S. economic relationship with North Korea unlikely to change

by Adriene Hill
Dec 19, 2011
The death of Kim Jong-Il still leaves much to be determined before the U.S. will ever remove sanctions against North Korea and engage in an economic relationship with the country
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