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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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How "60 Minutes" stays relevant after 50 years

by Adriene Hill
Oct 23, 2017
Executive producer Jeff Fager talks about his book on the history of the show.
Members of television's “60 Minutes” celebrate the show's 25th anniversary. From left are: Mike Wallace, Andy Rooney, Morley Safer, Steve Kroft, Ed Bradley, Leslie Stahl and executive producer Don Hewitt.
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What happened to the GOP’s deficit hawks?

by Adriene Hill
Oct 17, 2017
The Senate is pushing ahead on a budget vote this week. That framework would move the GOP a step closer to the tax overhaul it has promised. The Senate plan allows for as much as $1.5 trillion in tax cuts over the decade. Those cuts could blow a $2.4 trillion hole in the budget, the […]
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How the GOP tax plan could hurt charities

by Adriene Hill
Oct 17, 2017
The framework would give fewer people tax incentives to give.
President Donald Trump speaks on tax reform at Harrisburg International Airport last week in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
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Senate budget battle likely as vote looms

by Adriene Hill
Oct 17, 2017
The Senate is expected to take up a budget framework this week. If it passes, the GOP will be one step closer to the tax overhaul it so desperately wants. President Donald Trump promised yesterday in a Rose Garden press conference with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the tax plan is on track. But […]
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Do non-disclosure agreements protect sexual abusers?

by Adriene Hill
Oct 13, 2017
Hollywood is struggling to come to terms with the Harvey Weinstein scandal. More women have come forward with more allegations and named other big names. But it’s not just entertainment where payoffs happen to keep people quiet. What role do non-disclosure agreements play in shielding sexual abusers?
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Would Trump's executive order make better, cheaper health care? Only kind of

by Adriene Hill and Sean McHenry
Oct 12, 2017
Today, when the president signed an executive order expanding coverage options outside of the Obamacare marketplaces, he promised that the order would create more insurance options at “lower prices, and for millions of Americans.”   Actually, the order is asking federal agencies to broaden the use of short-term insurance options, which aren’t beholden to the coverage […]
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Hungry and broke? We've got a cookbook for you, millennials

by Adriene Hill , Bridget Bodnar and Sean McHenry
Oct 12, 2017
Miranda Berman and Gabi Moskowitz want to hold your hand in the kitchen.
The "Someday I'll Be Rich Rice and Beans" from a new cookbook by Gabi Moskowitz and Miranda Berman.
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Could Puerto Rico’s devastated power grid be rebuilt using solar energy instead?

by Adriene Hill
Oct 6, 2017
It’s been weeks now since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, and still a vast majority of the island, nearly 90 percent, doesn’t have power. Elon Musk, on Twitter, suggested his solar power technology could be scaled up to rebuild the entire power grid, and the governor of the island, Ricardo Rossello, tweeted back “Let’s talk.”  […]
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The fight over how to attach a value to the GOP tax plan

by Adriene Hill
Oct 5, 2017
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $4.1 trillion budget plan today. That brings us closer to a tax overhaul, because the passage of the spending blueprint will make it easier for Republicans to push a tax plan through. That’s not to say it will be easy: There are a whole lot of big-deal questions […]
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How Russians used a "powerful" Facebook tool to target voters

by Adriene Hill
Oct 3, 2017
This week, Facebook handed over 3,000 Russian-linked ads to congressional investigators. The ads give just a glimpse into the scope of Russian meddling in the presidential election. Facebook has characterized the ads as appearing to amplify racial and social divisions. Now The Washington Post has a story about how Russian operatives used a sophisticated Facebook advertising tool […]
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