Al Hunt

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Al Hunt
File:Al Hunt.jpg Al Hunt checking his BlackBerry at the Verizon Center, February 3, 2007
Born	Albert Reinold Hunt, Jr. (1942-12-04) December 4, 1942 Charlottesville, Virginia
Alma mater	Wake Forest University (B.A., Political Science, 1965)
Occupation	executive editor, news anchor
Notable credit(s)	Bloomberg News's Washington editor, anchor of Political Capital on Bloomberg Television
Spouse(s)	Judy Woodruff
Children	three

Albert Reinold "Al" Hunt, Jr. (born December 4, 1942) is an American columnist for Bloomberg View, the editorial arm of Bloomberg News (which is a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P.). Hunt hosts the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital on Bloomberg Television. Hunt was also a weekly panelist on CNN's Capital Gang and Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields.

Personal life

Hunt 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. He first married Margaret O'Toole of Pittsburgh and later married Judy Woodruff of PBS. He has three children, including a son born with spina bifida.

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.

Prior to joining Bloomberg News in January 2005, Hunt worked for the Wall Street Journal. During his 35 years in the newspaper’s 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." Hunt 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 (the show) 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.

Appearances

Hunt has also served as a periodic panelist on NBC's Meet the Press and PBS' 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. In 2002, he contributed an essay about campaign finance reform for Caroline Kennedy's Profiles in Courage for Our Time.

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, then CNN anchor 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.

Of note

Hunt is a member of the Wake Forest board of trustees; the board of the Children's Charities in Washington; and the advisory board 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.

Notes

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

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Al Hunt at the Internet Movie Database
• Al Hunt Leaves ‘WSJ’ for Bloomberg, 2004
• Interview With Al Hunt, 2005
• Al Hunt's Memorial to Tim Russert at the Kennedy Center - video, 2008 at the Huffington Post