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Al Hunt

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Al Hunt
Al Hunt on Bloomberg TV's
Political Capital with Al Hunt
Born (1942-12-04) December 4, 1942 (age 81)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Alma materWake Forest University (BA)
Occupation(s)executive editor, news anchor
Notable credit(s)Bloomberg News's Washington editor, anchor of Political Capital on Bloomberg Television
Spouse
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(m. 1980)​
Children3

Albert Reinold Hunt Jr. (born December 4, 1942) is an American journalist, formerly a columnist for Bloomberg View (from which he retired at the end of 2018), the editorial arm of Bloomberg News (which is a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P.). 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.

Personal life

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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. He first married Margaret O'Toole of Pittsburgh[1] and later married Judy Woodruff of PBS. Together they have three children, including a son born with spina bifida.[2]

Career

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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.[3]

Hunt is a member of Wake Forest University's board of trustees[4] and the board of the Children's Charities in Washington,[5] 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.[6] 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.[7][8]

Appearances

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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.[9] 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.[10][11]

Awards

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In 1999, Hunt received the William Allen White Foundation's national citation, one of the highest honors in journalism.[12][13] In 1995, he and his wife, Judy Woodruff, received the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism from the University of South Dakota.[14][15] In 1976, Hunt received a Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting.[16][17]

See also

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Notes

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

References

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  1. ^ "Wedding Announcements". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 30, 1969 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Advisory Board Members, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, accessed June 3, 2017
  3. ^ "4 days to midterms – HALLOWEEN EDITION". Politico. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-08. Executive producer Yvette Vega emails the staff: "Albert Hunt of Bloomberg View is going to help the CR program in making it even better. We will have a regular feature interview called 'Al Hunt on the story'. [Today] launches his first interview with SoS John Kerry."
  4. ^ Board Members, Company Overview of Wake Forest University, Diversified Consumer Services, Bloomberg, accessed June 3, 2017
  5. ^ Board of Directors, Children's Charities Foundation, accessed June 3, 2017
  6. ^ Advisory Board Members, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, accessed June 3, 2017
  7. ^ Tim Russert Memorial Service, C-Span, June 18, 2008, accessed June 3, 2017
  8. ^ Honoring Tim Russert - Albert Hunt - Memorial Service In Washington, DC, YouTube video, accessed June 3, 2017
  9. ^ Profile for Al Hunt, Princeton University Center for Economic Policy Studies, accessed June 3, 2017
  10. ^ Elections American Style (1987). Co-Editors. Albert R. Hunt; Stephen Hess; Walter Dean Burnham; Eddie N. Williams; Milton D. Morris. 1987[citation needed] 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.
  11. ^ Hunt, Albert R., John McCain, and Russell Feingold, p. 349 in Kennedy, C. Profiles in Courage for Our Time, 2003. ISBN 9780786886784
  12. ^ William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. "WAW Award List". University of Kansas. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  13. ^ William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. "At a glance". University of Kansas. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  14. ^ "Al Neuharth Award for Excellence". South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Archived from the original on 2012-01-16.
  15. ^ "Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media, List of recipients". Newseum Institute. Archived from the original on Mar 17, 2015. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  16. ^ "CNN profile for Al Hunt". Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  17. ^ Hunt, A. R. (September 18, 2003). "Greed, Grasso and a Gilded Age". The Wall Street Journal. Politics & People. Archived from the original on Jul 3, 2004. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
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