In the US, she worked in documentaries at WGBH TV in Boston and graduated with a master's degree in Journalism from New York's Columbia University.
Eleanor has travelled extensively in her career taking her to Boston, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Guatemala, United Kingdom, Hungary, Thailand, the Philippines, India and back to New York.
Hall has also reported for television news and current affairs from Sydney and Darwin Prior to joining the ABC and while still a university student, Eleanor was a scriptwriter on the documentary, Chile Hasta Cuando, which won the Brazilian and Cuban film festival awards.
In 2000, Eleanor joined ABC Radio's current affairs reporting team serving AM, PM and The World Today.
In 2009, she won a scholarship to the UK where she completed a term at Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and submitted a paper on politics in the YouTube age, focusing on the Obama e-campaign.