Al Hunt

Early life

Hunt was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. He graduated from the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1960. He attended Wake Forest University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1965 and worked for the Old Gold & Black.

Career

Before graduating from Wake Forest University, Hunt worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Winston-Salem Journal. In 1965, he became a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York, before transferring to its Boston bureau in 1967, then to the Washington, D.C., bureau in 1969.

Before joining Bloomberg News in January 2005, Hunt worked for The Wall Street Journal. During his 35 years in its Washington bureau, he was a congressional and national political reporter, a bureau chief and, most recently, executive Washington editor. For 11 years, Hunt wrote the weekly column "Politics & People." He also directed the paper's political polls for 20 years and served as president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and a board member of Ottaway Newspapers Inc., a Dow Jones subsidiary.

In October 2014, Charlie Rose introduced a segment called "Al Hunt on the Story" as a "regular feature interview"; Hunt's first interview under this banner was with Secretary of State John Kerry.

Hunt is a member of Wake Forest University's board of trustees and the board of the Children's Charities in Washington, and has been an advisory board member of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. He teaches a course on the press and politics at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications. On June 18, 2008, Hunt was one of 10 people chosen to remember journalist Tim Russert, who had died days before, at his memorial service at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Appearances

Hunt has also served as a periodic panelist on NBC's Meet the Press and PBS's Washington Week in Review, as well as a political analyst on CBS Morning News and a weekly panelist on CNN's Capital Gang. He was also a panelist on Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields. He is co-author of a series of books published by the American Enterprise Institute, including The American Elections of 1980, The American Elections of 1982, and The American Elections of 1984. In 1987, he co-authored Elections American Style for the Brookings Institution.

Awards

In 1999, Hunt received the William Allen White Foundation's national citation, one of the highest honors in journalism. In 1995, he and his wife, Judy Woodruff, received the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism from the University of South Dakota. In 1976, Hunt received a Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting.

Personal life

Hunt has been married twice. He was first married to Margaret O'Toole of Pittsburgh. In 1980, he married Judy Woodruff of PBS. Together they have three children, including a son born with spina bifida.

Notes

1. "1986: A Life-Changing Year", The Washington Post, July 25, 1999

References

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8. ''Elections American Style'' (1987). Co-Editors. Albert R. Hunt; Stephen Hess; Walter Dean Burnham; Eddie N. Williams; Milton D. Morris. 1987{{citation needed. (June 2017 In 2002, he, [[John McCain]] and [[Russ Feingold]] contributed an essay about [[Campaign finance reform in the United States). campaign finance reform]] for [[Caroline Kennedy]]'s ''Profiles in Courage for Our Time''.
9. Hunt, Albert R., John McCain, and Russell Feingold, p. 349 in Kennedy, C. ''Profiles in Courage for Our Time'', 2003. {{ISBN. 9780786886784
10. William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. "WAW Award List".
11. William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. "At a glance".
12. "Al Neuharth Award for Excellence".
13. "Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media, List of recipients".
14. (May 2025). "CNN profile for Al Hunt".
15. Hunt, A. R.. (September 18, 2003). "Greed, Grasso and a Gilded Age". [[The Wall Street Journal]].
16. (November 30, 1969). "Wedding Announcements". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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