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
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(which is a subsidiary of
Bloomberg L.P.). Hunt hosted the
Sunday morning talk show ''Political Capital'' on
Bloomberg Television
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and was also a weekly panelist on
CNN's ''
Capital Gang'' and ''
Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields''.
Personal life
Hunt was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. He graduated from
The Haverford School
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Haverford, Pennsylvania
Haverford is an unincorporated community located in both Haverford Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, and Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, approximately west of Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) ope ...
, in 1960. He attended
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...
, 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
Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976. She is the anchor and managing editor of ''PBS NewsHour''. Woodruff has covered every presi ...
of
PBS. Together they have three children, including a son born with
spina bifida
Spina bifida (Latin for 'split spine'; SB) is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the spine and the membranes around the spinal cord during early development in pregnancy. There are three main types: spina bifida occulta, men ...
.
Career
Before graduating from Wake Forest University, Hunt worked for the ''
Philadelphia Bulletin
The ''Philadelphia Bulletin'' was a daily evening newspaper published from 1847 to 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the largest circulation newspaper in Philadelphia for 76 years and was once the largest evening newspaper in the United ...
'' and the ''
Winston-Salem Journal
The ''Winston-Salem Journal'' is an American, English language daily newspaper primarily serving Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina. It also covers Northwestern North Carolina.
The paper is owned by Lee Enterprises. ''The Journa ...
''. In 1965, he became a reporter for ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' in New York, before transferring to its Boston bureau in 1967, then to the Washington, D.C., bureau in 1969.
Before joining
Bloomberg News
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in January 2005, Hunt worked for ''
The Wall Street Journal
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''. 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
Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American former television journalist and talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show '' Charlie Rose'' on PBS and Bloomberg LP.
Rose also co- ...
'' 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
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
.
Hunt is a member of
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...
'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
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
. He teaches a course on the press and politics at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...
'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
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.
Appearances
Hunt has also served as a periodic panelist on
NBC
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's ''
Meet the Press
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'' and
PBS's ''
Washington Week in Review
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'', as well as a political analyst on ''
CBS Morning News
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'' 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
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right Washington, D.C.–based think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare. A ...
, 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
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.
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
Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976. She is the anchor and managing editor of ''PBS NewsHour''. Woodruff has covered every presi ...
, received the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism from the
University of South Dakota
The University of South Dakota (USD) is a public research university in Vermillion, South Dakota. Established by the Dakota Territory legislature in 1862, 27 years before the establishment of the state of South Dakota, USD is the flagship uni ...
. In 1976, Hunt received a Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting.
[Hunt, A .R]
Greed, Grasso and a Gilded Age
Politics & People. ''The Wall Street Journal'', September 18, 2003, accessed June 3, 2017
See also
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1980 United States presidential election
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United States elections, 1982
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1984 United States presidential election
The 1984 United States presidential election was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated Democratic former Vice President Walter Mondale, in ...
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Judy Woodruff
Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976. She is the anchor and managing editor of ''PBS NewsHour''. Woodruff has covered every presi ...
Notes
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The Washington Post
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'', July 25, 199
References
External links
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Huffington Post
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