Lee Hill
Executive Editor
Lee is an award-winning multi-platform journalist, news veteran, and the first Executive Editor for GBH News, where he oversees editorial content, production, planning and strategy for a growing newsroom across audio, visual and digital platforms. While serving as Executive Editor, GBH News has won multiple Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and Gracie awards, a Peabody Award and has been named the most trusted news outlet in Boston for multiple years in a row.
Before joining GBH, Lee was Executive Producer for the daily national news program The Takeaway, a production of PRX and WNYC Studios in New York City. Lee held several other leadership roles at WNYC, including Director of Content Strategy, Director of Transformation and Senior Editor in the local newsroom.
Prior to WNYC, Lee was Public Insight Reporter and Editor for Colorado Public Radio. At CPR, he was charged with gathering, curating and vetting personal stories and expertise from the local community to permanently broaden the scope of newsroom reporting and establish a culture of engaging the public around stories of all scale. His coverage of Colorado wildfires, intense gun policy debates following the Aurora theater mass shooting, marijuana legalization, growing race and class disparities in Denver among other stories added close to 2,000 diverse new sources to the newsroom’s reporting. He also produced stories for the daily news program Colorado Matters, acted as Deputy Digital Editor and built the newsroom's social media strategy. With Lee's arrival in 2011, he integrated the CPR newsroom as its first journalist of color.
Before Colorado, Lee was at NPR in Washington, where he spent close to eight years in a variety of roles -- beginning as an intern and leaving as an associate producer and blogger for NPR News. He was a founding producer of Tell Me More hosted by Michel Martin, which was the first NPR News program to begin online as a blog and evolve into a daily national news program broadcast on stations from coast to coast. He also was part of an inaugural group of 12 NPR journalists funded by the Knight Foundation to drive digital transformation and integration within NPR News.
Lee was bitten by the journalism bug as a high schooler in Milwaukee, where he worked as "junior editor" for the Milwaukee Courier newspaper and as a Senior Reporter for Teen Forum, a local news program that aired weekly on ABC affiliate WISN-TV in Milwaukee.
He has won or shared several awards during his career, including a national Edward R. Murrow, a National Headliner Award, honors from the Associated Press, citations from the Colorado Broadcasters Association, Journalist of the Year from the Colorado Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Salute to Excellence Award for Digital Innovation.
Lee is a graduate of Howard University, where he studied journalism and economics.
