Erica Ruth Hill (born July 20, 1976) is an American journalist and co-anchor of CBS This Morning. Prior to her current position, she was the weekday co-anchor of The Early Show. Hill previously worked as an anchor and correspondent for CNN, Headline News and TechTV.

Personal life[link]

Hill was born in Clinton, Connecticut.^[1] She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Journalism from Boston University in 1998.^[2] She is also fluent in French. Hill married David Yount on October 15, 2005,^[3] and on November 25, 2006, gave birth to her first son, Weston Robert Yount.^[4] Her second son, Sawyer Steven Yount, was born on March 23, 2010.^[5]

In 2006, Hill was listed at #35 in People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People issue.

Career[link]

Hill began her journalism career in 1998 as a production assistant for "PC Week Radio", the online news program for PC Week magazine. During this time, she also worked as a conference coordinator for the Software Publishers Association Europe. She worked at TechTV from 2000 to 2003 as part of the TechTV News program, later named TechLive. From 2000 to 2001, she served as reporter, and from 2001 to 2003, she was co-anchor and correspondent for the program. She is noted for her live reporting of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when she was working for TechTV.^[2][6]

Hill joined CNN's Headline News channel in January 2003, working as a general news anchor for different programs. In 2004, she joined CNN Newsource as a national correspondent. She co-anchored Prime News Tonight from 2005 to 2006 before becoming anchor of Prime News with Erica Hill from 2006 to 2008. She began providing news updates for Anderson Cooper 360° (AC360°) in April 2005, and was named a full-time member in February 2008. Hill also co-anchored CNN Tonight during its November 2009 to January 2010 run.^[2][6]

On September 22, 2008, Hill was named the new co-anchor of the Saturday edition of The Early Show on CBS after filling in on a temporary basis six weeks earlier. Her first show as the permanent anchor was on September 27, 2008.^[7] She continued to appear on AC360° for CNN.

On January 8, 2010, it was announced on AC360° that she would be leaving CNN immediately to join CBS News.^[8] CBS announced on January 13 that Hill would be replacing Russ Mitchell on the weekday edition of The Early Show the following week,^[9] and on January 18, the Early Show cast officially welcomed Hill to the program.

On June 29 and July 5, 2010, Hill anchored the CBS Evening News in Katie Couric's absence. With Maggie Rodriguez on maternity leave, Hill has also been the primary female anchor on the Early Show in June 2010. Hill also anchored the CBS Evening News while Scott Pelley was in Afghanistan on October 4, 2011.

On November 30, 2010, Erica Hill was named co-anchor of CBS' "The Early Show"; the appointment is effective Jan. 3, 2011.

On November 15, 2011 CBS announced that Charlie Rose and Gayle King would join Hill as co-anchors of a new CBS News morning program launching January 9, 2012.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Erica Hill bio at CBSNews.com
• Erica Hill at the Internet Movie Database

Marysol Castro
Castro at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	(1976-09-29) September 29, 1976 (age 35) Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
Education	Wesleyan University Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Occupation	Meteorologist Journalist
Years active	2000–present

Marysol Castro (born September 29, 1976) is a television journalist and was weather anchor for the The Early Show on CBS in 2011. Prior to that, she was the weather and features correspondent for the weekend edition of Good Morning America on ABC from 2004 to 2010.

Early life and career[link]

Born to Puerto Rican parents in New York City,^[1] Castro was raised in the Bronx and attended Public School 83 and Intermediate School 181. She later attended Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with a Bachelors of Arts degree in 1996.^[2] She later obtained a Masters of Arts in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Prior to her career with ABC News, Castro was a general assignment reporter for WPIX in New York. She worked as a reporter for News 12, a local cable news network in the Bronx. She taught briefly at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn as an English teacher. In September 2010, Castro left GMA Weekend. On January 3, 2011, as part of a complete show overhaul, Castro became the weekday weather forecaster for The Early Show on CBS replacing Dave Price.^[3] On September 2, 2011, it was announced that she would be leaving her post as weather anchor efffective immediately.^[4]

Personal life[link]

Castro presently resides in Connecticut with her two sons, Liam and Gavin. She filed for divorce from husband Christopher Poole in 2011.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Marysol Castro on the Internet Movie Database

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Jenna Wolfe (born Jennifer Wolfe; February 26, 1974) is a national correspondent for NBC's Today, and the co-anchor of their Sunday edition , and had once substituted on the NBC Nightly News.

Broadcasting career[link]

From 2004 to 2007, she was the weekend morning sports anchor for WABC's Eyewitness News in New York City where she had a special segment called "Jenna's Beef," in which she editorialized an event from the world of sports that week. Prior to that, she worked for the Madison Square Garden Network, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia as the first female sportscaster, WICZ-TV in Binghamton, New York, WUHF-TV in Rochester, New York, and the Today Show as an intern. Aside from her journalistic duties, Wolfe has appeared as a judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America.

Personal life[link]

Wolfe was born in to Bennett and Sheila Wolfeld in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Pétionville, Haiti, before moving to the United States with her family in 1989. She had a Jewish upbringing.^[1] Wolfe graduated from Binghamton University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and English in 1996. She also attended SUNY Geneseo from 1992 to 1994.^[2] She currently lives in Manhattan.

References[link]

• Jenna Wolfe's All Day Debut
• "Ch. 2 lifts anchors for new shifts". New York Daily news. June 22, 2007. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/06/22/2007-06-22_ch_2_lifts_anchors_for_new_shifts-1.html. Retrieved 2009-08-09. 
• "Former Intern Returns To "Today", On-Air". Mediabistro.com. August 13, 2007. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/former_intern_returns_to_today_onair_65001.asp. Retrieved 2009-08-09. ^{[dead link]}
• Jenna Wolfe Assisting Home Renovators

Anderson Cooper
Cooper at Wolfson Children's Hospital October 20, 2007
Born	Anderson Hays Cooper (1967-06-03) June 3, 1967 (age 45) New York City, New York, United States
Education	Yale University (BA)
Occupation	Broadcast journalist Author Talk show host Game show host
Years active	1990–present
Notable credit(s)	World News Now co-anchor (1999–2000) American Morning anchor (2002) Anderson Cooper 360° anchor (2003–present) Anderson host (2011–present)
Relatives	Gloria Vanderbilt (mother) Wyatt Emory Cooper (father)

Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories. As of September 2011, he also serves as host of his own eponymous syndicated daytime talk show, Anderson.

Early life[link]

Anderson Hays Cooper was born on June 3, 1967,^[1] the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, and is a great-great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune.^[2] Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper's Bazaar.^[3][4] He is also a descendant, through his mother, of Brevet Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick who was with Union General William T. Sherman in his March through Georgia.

At the age of 3 Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17, 1970, appearing with his mother.^[5] At the age of 9, he appeared on To Tell the Truth as an impostor.^[6] From age 10 to 13 Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's.^[7]

Cooper's father suffered a series of heart attacks while undergoing open-heart surgery, and died January 5, 1978, at the age of 50. Cooper considers his father's book Families to be "sort of a guide on...how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very connected to him."^[7]

Cooper's older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book A Mother's Story, in which she expresses her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti-asthma prescription drug salbutamol. Anderson cites Carter's suicide for sparking his interest in journalism. "Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it’s something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can’t tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?"^[7]