Ryan Hill is a reporter and multimedia journalist currently living in Sacramento, California. He currently works for CBS13-KOVR in the capital city. Ryan joined the KOVR team in July 2019.
Hill is a general assignment reporter/MMJ for CBS13. He is responsible for being in a handful of different shows for the nightly newscasts which include CBS13 at 4, 5, 6 and 6:30 p.m.
He has covered plenty of stories from wild fires to city and county government in his time thus far in Sacramento.
Ryan has been assigned to a variety of stories amid the pandemic as a reporter and MMJ. He covered the first group of Americans returning from cruise ships in Japan before the pandemic took form. Hill’s coverage during the pandemic the changes to educations, work places, local businesses and companies adjusting to the pandemic and creating new testing platforms, and told the stories of those who made miraculous recoveries from COVID-19 and those who tragically lost their lives to the virus. He also was on the ground for protests in and around downtown Sacramento and the Capital building following the death of George Floyd. He has been in middle of the historic wildfire season that Northern California saw in 2020 including the LNU Complex Fire and Glass Fire.
His station strives on getting answers and he plans on doing so for the wide-ranging audience that CBS13-KOVR does for its viewers.
He previously worked at KFOX14/CBS4 in El Paso as multimedia journalist and a fill-in anchor. Hill covered a plethora of stories and topics in his time in the Borderland.
Hill has been the point man for controversial projects such as the City of El Paso’s Downtown Arena. In addition, he has also covered high-profile federal bankruptcy cases involving local hospitals and ownership of historic downtown El Paso buildings, the tent detention center in Tornillo, Texas and other stories involving the immigration crisis. Hill covered critical policy issues for New Mexico and Texas. He also covered the highly disputed Senate Bill 4 aka the anti-sanctuary cities bill and other legislation that moved through the Texas Legislature. Hill also covered the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonine Scalia when his body was transported to El Paso. The Pope came to El Paso and Hill was there to help his station own live wall-to-wall coverage of the historic event. He also spent time filling in on the anchor desk on mornings, weekdays and weekends on KFOX14 News at Five and the Emmy-Award winning KFOX14 News at Nine and CBS4 at 5:30 and CBS4 at 10.
He has lived in many different states and cities including: Novato, California and St. Petersburg, Florida. His journalism career started when he enrolled in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He graduated Cum Laude from the Cronkite School majoring in Broadcast Journalism and minoring Political Science.
Hill is proficient in many different types of camera equipment including Sony, Panasonic GoPro and DSLR cameras. He is also proficient with different editing softwares (Avid NewsCutter, Adobe Creative Suite, Edius) and newscast production softwares (ENPS and iNews).
Hill has held various internships across the nation including USA TODAY and WUSA, the CBS affiliate in Washington D.C. He also served as a student reporter for thew Milwaukee Sentinel during coverage of 2014 Milwaukee Brewers Spring Training and 2015 Super Bowl Coverage for azcentral.
His entire résumé can be downloaded and viewed here.
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