During Erica Hill's tearful goodbye on Prime News with Erica Hill last night, it was announced that Mike Galanos will be taking over for Erica as she moves to New York to be a correspondent on Anderson Cooper 360°. You may remember that when Prime News started on Headline News, Mike and Erica co-hosted the show.

They removed her photo from the Prime News website but as of this writing, you can still see that her "head" is visisble.

CNN Pressroom - Erica Hill is joining CNN/U.S. as an anchor and as a correspondent to Anderson Cooper 360°, it was announced today by David Doss, executive producer of Anderson Cooper 360°.

Hill has served as an anchor at Headline News since January 2003, most recently for Prime News with Erica Hill. In addition, she provided news updates for Anderson Cooper 360° since April 2005. She joins Anderson Cooper 360° full-time on Friday, Feb. 1, and will be based in New York.

“We’re delighted Erica is joining us full time,” Doss said. “She’s an exceptional journalist, a terrific broadcaster and a great addition to the AC360 team.”

As an Anderson Cooper 360° correspondent, Hill’s role expands to include reporting and sub-anchoring from the field. She joins a team of contributors that includes Tom Foreman, Joe Johns, Randi Kaye, David Mattingly and Gary Tuchman.

Among other stories, Hill reported from Mississippi as part of CNN's coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She also anchored coverage of the war in Iraq, including the discovery of American contractor Thomas Hamill after he escaped his captors there and the Northeast U.S. blackout in 2003. She has also served as a national correspondent for CNN Newsource in the Washington, D.C., bureau.

Hill joined the network from Tech TV in San Francisco, where she was co-anchor and correspondent for Tech Live, a 30-minute daily news magazine. Hill was on the air live when the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks began and anchored throughout the day and as events continued to unfold. Additionally, Hill was a reporter for Tech TV News where she covered a wide variety of technology stories. She also anchored and co-produced specials on a number of topics including the debate surrounding embryonic stem cell research, the technology behind the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2001 Oscars.

Hill earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism, graduating summa cum laude from Boston University.

Anderson Cooper 360° is an in-depth, comprehensive news program that takes a full 360-degree look at the world’s events. The program showcases CNN’s worldwide newsgathering capabilities as well as Anderson Cooper’s unique sensibilities and perspective through a diverse range of live reports and interviews. Anderson Cooper 360° airs on CNN/U.S. each weekday from 10 p.m. to midnight. (ET)

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.

CNN.com Live Anchors Melissa Long and Reggie Aqui co-hosted the YouTube Debate Preview on CNN.com Live Video this evening. CNN.com Live is going to be streaming comments and coverage online during the commercial breaks on CNN Worldwide. Melissa is live in St. Petersburg.

Prime News with Erica Hill anchor Erica Hill from Headline News is in St. Petersburg, FL as well tonight, as was mentioned in her daily newsletter from Prime News with Erica Hill.

Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger and American Morning co-host John Roberts are in to offer their analysis on the debate as well.


Anderson Cooper is hosting the CNN/YouTube Debate that is airing now on CNN Domestic, CNN.com Live, Headline News and CNN International.

Post-Debate: He is now hosting after-debate coverage (a special edition of Anderson Cooper 360°) which included Chief National Correspondent John King, Anchor Campbell Brown, Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin, National Correspondent Joe Johns, Correspondent Tom Foreman, American Morning co-host John Roberts and Headline News' Prime News with Erica Hill anchor Erica Hill.

(On a personal note, I think it was great to see Erica Hill from Headline News included in this debate coverage.)

CNN.com Live Anchors Melissa Long and Reggie Aqui are broadcasting post-debate coverage on CNN.com Live Video.


CNN en Español: CNN en Español is replaying the debate right now, in the place where Encuentro con Daniel Viotto replays and it is also being streamed on CNN.com Live.


Broken Government: Campbell Brown's first special for the network, Broken Government: Campaign Killers, which dives into the ruthless world of campaign political attack ads. That begins at 11:00 PM Eastern.

Political Ticker: You can get more information about the debate, and the updates after from the CNN Political Ticker at http://www.cnn.com/ticker.

Post-Debate Interviews with John Roberts: John Roberts will have post-debate interviews Thursday morning (November 29) on American Morning beginning at 6:00 AM Eastern on CNN Domestic.

Domestic Re-Air Schedule: The debate will re-air Thursday morning (November 29) at 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM Eastern and Saturday night (December 1) at 8:00 PM Eastern on CNN.

Melissa Long - Anchor, CNN.com Live

John Roberts - Anchor, American Morning
CNN/U.S.

Richelle Carey - Correspondent, Prime News with Erica Hill
Anchor, Prime News Breaks
Headline News

• Two new bios have been added to CNN.com: Reggie Aqui and Kate Bolduan (Thanks, Bill!)

• Hong Kong's set has arrived. You can view an opening from CNN Today HK featuring the new set at YouTube. I think it's great that they've finally gotten all 3 sets together so that when they switch to Weather it looks seamless.

• Carol Costello filled-in for Wolf Blitzer today on The Situation Room.

• Mike Galanos has become a correspondent for Prime News with Erica Hill on Headline News. He's come full-circle with this appointment basically because the two used to host the show together. You can view a video of his first Prime News report here.

They changed Erica Hill's photo from the one you see on the Prime News with Erica Hill website back to this one.

• A lot of people have been asking recently about Fredricka Whitfield. She is anchoring CNN Newsroom today.

• Linda Stouffer was seen anchoring Prime News with Erica Hill last night. Today she's anchoring the Afternoon edition of Headline News.





• Bonnie Schneider was reporting on a story about a Robot contest in Atlanta. Maybe since she is just as freelancer in the Weather department, she can do other stories as well.