Al Hunt Biography
Al Hunt is an American journalist who was a columnist for Bloomberg View, Bloomberg News’ editorial arm. Hunt formerly worked for The Wall Street Journal before joining Bloomberg News in January 2005.
Al Hunt Age
He was born Albert Reinold Hunt Jr. on 4 December 1942, in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Hunt is 80 years old as of December 2022.
Al Hunt Education
In 1960, he graduated from The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wake Forest University.
Al Hunt Wife- Children
He married Margaret O’Toole of Pittsburgh first, and Judy Woodruff of PBS subsequently. They have three children together, one of them was born with spina bifida.
Al Hunt Career
Hunt worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Winston-Salem Journal before attending Wake Forest University. He started as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in New York in 1965, then moved to its Boston office in 1967, then to its Washington, D.C., bureau in 1969. Hunt worked for The Wall Street Journal before joining Bloomberg News in 2005. He worked at the Washington bureau for 35 years, serving as a congressional and national political reporter, bureau chief, and, most recently, executive Washington editor. For 11 years, Hunt authored a weekly column called “Politics & People.” He also served as president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and a board member of Ottaway Newspapers Inc., a Dow Jones subsidiary, and directed the paper’s political surveys for 20 years.
Charlie Rose established “Al Hunt on the Story” as a “regular feature interview” in October 2014; Hunt’s first interview under this title was with Secretary of State John Kerry. Hunt serves on the boards of trustees of Wake Forest University the Children’s Charities of Washington and the Joan Shorenstein Centre on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. He teaches a course on the press and politics at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Hunt was one of ten people chosen to memorialise writer Tim Russert, who had died just days before, during his memorial event at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts on June 18, 2008.
Hunt has also been on NBC’s Meet the Press and PBS’s Washington Week in Review on a regular basis, as well as as a political analyst on CBS Morning News and a weekly panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang. He also appeared on Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields. He is a co-author of The American Elections of 1980, The American Elections of 1982, and The American Elections of 1984, all published by the American Enterprise Institute. He co-wrote Elections American Style for the Brookings Institution in 1987. Hunt earned the William Allen White Foundation’s national citation in 1999, one of journalism’s top honors. In 1995, he and his wife, Judy Woodruff, earned the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Journalism Excellence.
Al Hunt Net Worth
Al has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.