Jenny Hill is a British

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and

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who works for the

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. As of September 2014, she is the BBC's

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correspondent, having previously worked as a reporter for ''

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'' and as a crime correspondent and regional reporter for the

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region. She has also previously worked as a relief presenter on ''

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''.

Early life

Hill was born and grew up on the island of

Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ...

, where she attended

Jersey College for Girls Jersey College for Girls (JCG, Jèrriais: ''Lé collège jèrriais pour les fil'yes'') is a government-run, fee-paying, academically selective

. She first became interested in journalism while working for

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Journalism career

Following postgraduate studies at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Hill joined Central Television in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

as a reporter. When the BBC established its television news service for the

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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

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to work for ''BBC Look North'' for the Humber region, after which she moved to Hull, where she presented the region's breakfast bulletins. 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. In 2009 Hill became a regional reporter for the North of England on ''

'' and the

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. Among the high-profile stories Hill worked on for ''Look North'' are the

2007 United Kingdom floods A series of large floods occurred in parts of the United Kingdom during the summer of 2007. The worst of the flooding occurred across Scotland on 14 June; East Yorkshire and the Midlands on 15 June; Yorkshire, the Midlands, Gloucestershire, Here ...

and the trial and conviction of the killer of

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. Nationally she has covered events including the severe winter weather of 2009–10 and

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, and the

murder of Joanna Yeates Joanna Clare Yeates (19 April 1985 – 17 December 2010) was a landscape architect from Hampshire, England, who went missing from the flat she shared with her partner, in a large house in Bristol, on 17 December 2010 after an evening out ...

. In 2011, she covered the Japanese tsunami 2011,

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and the

2011 London Riots The 2011 England riots, more widely known as the London riots, were a series of riots between 6 and 11 August 2011. Thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, which saw looting, arson, as well as mass deployment of police ...

. In September 2014, she took up the position of Berlin correspondent for the BBC.

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