Jane Hill presents on the BBC News channel, from 11.00am to 2.00pm Mondays to Fridays, with Matthew Amroliwala.

 

She also presents BBC One's One O'Clock News, for BBC World News, and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.

 

Jane has anchored many rolling stories for television news, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; Irish voters' rejection of the EU referendum, from Dublin; the weeks after the attacks of September 11, from Washington DC; and the 2008 BAFTA film awards, where she interviewed Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Daniel Day Lewis.

 

In 2007 she was among the first journalists to arrive in the Algarve following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

 

She anchored many weeks of live coverage from Praia da Luz for the then BBC News 24 and BBC World, and conducted the first BBC interview with Kate and Gerry McCann. She has returned to Portugal many times since, and made a half-hour documentary about the story as part of the 2007 reviews of the year.

 

Jane started working in BBC local radio at the age of 16.

 

After gaining a Politics degree at London University, she worked at Democratic National Headquarters in Washington DC, before joining BBC News full-time at the end of 1991.

 

She was a researcher/producer on BBC Radio 5 Live for 18 months from its launch, and moved into television after completing the BBC Regional News Trainee Scheme.

 

In her spare time, Jane is a keen supporter of the arts, particularly theatre.

 

She is a Fellow of the British American Project, and enjoys food, wine, and going to the gym. And she is an Archers Addict.

 

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