Al Hunt

Albert R. Hunt (born January 1, 1942) is the executive Washington editor for Bloomberg. He is married to Judy Woodruff of PBS.

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.

As Bloomberg's Washington editor, Hunt hosts the Sunday morning talk show "Political Capital" on Bloomberg Television, which actually airs on Friday night. 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".

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.

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.

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.

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. He is the parent of three children including a son born with severe spina bifida.

On June 18, 2008, Hunt was one of 10 people chosen to remember journalist Tim Russert, who had passed away days before, at his memorial service at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Notes

# "1986: A Life-Changing Year", "Washington Post", July 25, 1999 [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072599.htm]

External links

* [http://www.nndb.com/people/525/000052369/ Al Hunt] NNDB entry.
* [http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2004/11/al_hunt_leaves_wsj_for_bloomberg/ Al Hunt Leaves ‘WSJ’ for Bloomberg]
* [http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/46826.htm Interview With Al Hunt]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/18/al-hunt-at-tim-russerts-m_n_107927.html Al Hunt's Memorial to Tim Russert at the Kennedy Center - video]