Al Hunt

Albert Reinold Hunt Jr. (born December 4, 1942) is an American journalist. He was a columnist for Bloomberg View, the editorial arm of Bloomberg News. Hunt hosted the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital on Bloomberg Television and was also a weekly panelist on CNN's Capital Gang and Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields. For decades, he worked in the Washington, D.C. bureau, reporting for the Wall Street Journal.

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 trusteesBoard Members, Company Overview of Wake Forest University, Diversified Consumer Services, Bloomberg, accessed June 3, 2017 and the board of the Children's Charities in Washington,Board of Directors, Children's Charities Foundation, accessed June 3, 2017 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.Advisory Board Members, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, accessed June 3, 2017 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.Tim Russert Memorial Service, C-Span, June 18, 2008, accessed June 3, 2017Honoring Tim Russert - Albert Hunt - Memorial Service In Washington, DC, YouTube video, accessed June 3, 2017

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.Profile for Al Hunt, Princeton University Center for Economic Policy Studies, accessed June 3, 2017 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.Elections American Style (1987). Co-Editors. Albert R. Hunt; Stephen Hess; Walter Dean Burnham; Eddie N. Williams; Milton D. Morris. 1987 In 2002, he, John McCain and Russ Feingold contributed an essay about campaign finance reform for Caroline Kennedy's Profiles in Courage for Our Time.Hunt, Albert R., John McCain, and Russell Feingold, p. 349 in Kennedy, C. Profiles in Courage for Our Time, 2003.

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.Advisory Board Members, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, accessed June 3, 2017

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