Al Hunt

Albert Reinhold Hunt Jr. was born on January 1, 1942 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Hunt graduated from The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1960 and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1965. Prior to graduating from Wake Forest University, Al worked for the newspapers The Philadelphia Bulletin and The Winston-Salem Journal. Hunt became a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York in 1965. He transferred to the paper's Boston, Massachusetts bureau in 1967 before transferring a second time to the Washington, D.C. bureau two years later. Al worked in the Washington bureau for The Wall Street Journal for thirty-five years: During this time Hunt was a national and congressional reporter, a bureau chief, and, later on, executive Washington editor. Moreover, Al wrote the weekly column "Politics & People" for eleven years as well as directed the paper's political polls for twenty years and served as president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and was a board member of the Dow Jones subsidiary Ottawa Newspapers, Inc.

Hunt joined Bloomberg News in January, 2005. Al became a regular feature reporter for the long-running talk show Charlie Rose (1991) with the segment "Al Hunt on the Story" in October, 2014. In addition, Hunt not only 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, but also has taught a course on the press and politics at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications. Among the awards Al has won are a Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting in 1976, the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism from the University of South Dakota in 1995, and a national citation from the William Allen White Foundation in 1999. He's the co-author of the books The American Elections of 1980, The American Elections of 1982, The American Elections of 1984, and Elections American Style. Married to news anchor Judy Woodruff since 1980, Hunt is the father of three children: Daughter Lauren Ann and sons Jeffrey and Benjamin.