He is best known for his work at the Associated Press and NBC; also, for his book Exchange Ship, narrating his and his fellow journalists' imprisonment and internment in Tokyo, Japan during World War II.

He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1926 and worked for several years for the Denver Post, where he became city editor in 1932.

[2] After his return to the United States, Hill joined NBC in 1943 and for two years covered World War II in North Africa, Italy, Turkey, and Greece.

In 1946, June Hill committed suicide by falling to her death from the bedroom of her apartment on the seventh floor at 340 East Fifty-second Street in New York City.

The Elkhart County coroner's report stated that Hill died of acute coronary occlusion.