Carl Hulse

Carl E. Hulse (born October 19, 1954) is the chief Washington correspondent for ''The New York Times'' and managing editor of First Draft, a political news stream and morning email newsletter. His regular ''New York Times'' column "On Washington", described developments in Washington DC. His writing has also appeared online with MSN, MSN UK, MSN Canada, and CNBC, and in the ''Sydney Morning Herald'', ''Albany Business Review'', Boston.com, ''The Economic Times'', American City Business Journals, and ''Miami Herald''.

Early life

Hulse was born in Illinois on October 19, 1954, and raised in Ottawa, Illinois. His father, Carl E. Hulse Sr., was a plumbing contractor after World War II, and his mother worked in their home after trying other work. In 1976, he received an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications from Illinois State University’s School of Communication, where as a student he was a news editor for ''The Vidette''. In 2007, the newspaper admitted him to The Vidette Hall of Fame. Ten years later, in 2017, the school’s College of Arts and Sciences elected him to its Hall of Fame.

Career

Immediately after his college graduation, he worked for the ''News Tribune'' in LaSalle, Illinois- Peru, Illinois. Before relocating to Washington DC in 1985, he spent the early years of his career working at newspapers in Illinois and Florida, ''The Daily Journal'' in Kankakee, Illinois, and the ''Sun-Sentinel'' in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In 1985 he began working at the Washington, D.C. bureau of ''The New York Times'' and covered its regional editions, first as night editor working the 3 p.m. to midnight shift. He began covering Capitol Hill in May 2002. From 2011 to 2014, he became Washington editor for the ''Times'', coordinating its Washington coverage of the White House and executive branch, Congress, the courts, and the Pentagon. For more than a decade he had served as the paper's chief Congressional correspondent.

He appears occasionally on PBS's '' Washington Week'' on Friday evenings.

Personal life

He lives in Washington with his wife, Kimberly Hamer Hulse, a longtime ''National Geographic'' employee. They have two grown sons, Nicolas and Benjamin.

He declares no political party. Hulse is in a local band called the Native Makers, where he plays drums, maraca, and other percussion instruments; they have written a song called "This Town"Ball M. Politics: Just another night in this town: At the book party for Mark Leibovich, the irony threatens to engulf the ironist. July 25, 2013
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References

External links

Twitter account for Carl Hulse

''New York Times'' profile for Carl Hulse

MuckRack profile for Carl Hulse, including a list of his articles

PBS profile for Carl Hulse

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1954 births
Living people
American political journalists
Illinois independents
Illinois State University alumni
Journalists from Illinois
The New York Times people
People from Ottawa, Illinois