“Oral History: Indigenous linguists use endangered language to connect Wampanoag members to their roots,” “Uber, driver sued for Falmouth crash,” and “Family Presses fight against Mashpee murder conviction” are all titles of articles written by Revere alum Jessica Hill. Hill is a journalist whose work can be digested nationwide, and she wants to give a voice to things and people who cannot make themselves heard without help.

Hill grew up in Ohio and went to Revere High School (RHS). She graduated in 2015 and went to Ohio University (OU) in Athens.

“I graduated [from Revere] High School in 2015 and went to Ohio University (OU), and I majored in journalism, global studies of Latin America and Spanish,” Hill said.

When going to OU, Hill had a specific career goal in the broad field of journalism. To help work towards this goal, she worked at The Post, OU’s student newspaper.

“I covered culture, and I was big into covering international students at Ohio University, and then I was an editor my senior year of college,” Hill said. “My goal was to be a foreign correspondent and travel around Latin America.”

A foreign correspondent is an international reporter who lives and works in a foreign country to cover local news for a domestic audience. After she graduated from OU, Hill got her first job.

“I graduated [from OU] in 2019 and got a job with the Cape Cod Times in Massachusetts,” Hill said.

Hill wrote local news for the Cape Cod Times for a few years before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, her current location. She got a job in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Sun and used that as a stepping stone to move to the Las Vegas Review Journal, then to the Associated Press.

Hill said, “I moved to the Las Vegas Review Journal, which was the state’s biggest newspaper in 2022. I worked there for three years, then recently took a job with the Associated Press, covering news and politics in Nevada.”

Hill had a specific job within the Las Vegas Review Journal, covering politics in-depth such as reporting on Nevada’s viewpoints on the 2024 presidential election.

“When I was at the Review Journal, I was the politics reporter, so I covered the 2024 election. I would cover all the campaign rallies, and I’d go with them in their kind of press pool in their motorcade,” Hill said.

Because of Hill’s focus on politics at the Review Journal and what the politics were at the time, she got to travel for work.

“I’d get to go to the big political conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee and report some of the biggest issues in politics, but based in Nevada,” Hill said.

Within her current Associated Press job, Hill works underneath a different state’s team, and she sometimes covers the state from within Nevada.

Hill said, “I also work underneath a California team, so I help out with the California news. . . . They are looking at things that would attract a global audience,” and she said that “I’ve had to change a lot of what I am writing.”

Her job at the Associated Press requires Hill to report on things that would be interesting and important to a large audience. Hill is having to adapt what she is writing to into things that may be different from what she is used to writing.

Hill said, “I cover some politics, but I also covered big breaking news and general news that people would be interested in.” She compares what she is writing now to what she has before as “more general, covering maybe a murder trial here or there that has generated interest.”

Before Hill was a journalist, she had hobbies other than journalism. Hill was a member of the RHS band.

Hill said, “I played flute and piccolo, played in concert band and then marching band.”

In her senior year of high school, Hill always wanted to write creatively and to be an author, but a book she read changed her mind.

Hill said, “Senior year of high school I had read a book called Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They were two married journalists, and they traveled around the world and talked to women in impoverished countries and shared their stories.”

The book changed Hill’s mind about what she wanted to do for a career and encouraged her to join the RHS newspaper, Lantern.

Hill said, “It was really eye opening to me about what journalism can do. . . . [It] provides a megaphone to people who are voiceless or whose story you never would have learned otherwise. I decided that maybe journalism was what I wanted to go into [my] senior year of High School.”

Hill was moved by the book to join Lantern and start her career in journalism that has grown to where it is now.

Hill said, “I joined Lantern, and I really just clicked with everybody there, and it just felt very natural to me.”

RHS Lantern adviser Alan Silvidi was Hill’s teacher when she went to RHS, and he discussed his memories of her from the time.

Silvidi said, “She was a great student. From the minute she got here she was one of the top reporters in class.”

He reflected on her career now and what she did during his class.

Silvidi said, “It was clear she was going to do that for her profession from her first couple articles.”

History teacher and a member of the Revere Alumni Association, Phil Heyn spoke on Hill’s career and how her accomplishments shine light on what the alumni association is doing.

“Revere alumini are out in the world achieving tremendous things, and Jessica Hill’s accomplishments and advancement is just another example of this,” he said.

Jessica Hill is an alum of RHS, and although journalism was a late decision, it changed her life. Hill has been at multiple locations over the last few years including the Cape Cod Times, The Las Vegas Sun, The Las Vegas Review Journal, and most recently the Associated Press.