Al Hunt (born January 1, 1942) is the executive Washington editor for Bloomberg. is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bloomberg L.P. is a Financial Media Company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1982. ...

He is married to Judy Woodruff of PBS. Judy Woodruff (born in Tulsa, OK, November 20, 1946) is an American television news anchor and journalist. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ...

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. Bloomberg Television is a cable television network that broadcasts business and financial news 24 hours a day. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), based in the United States is a publishing and financial information firm. ...

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. 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. This article is about the television network. ... Meet the Press (MTP) is a weekly television news show produced by NBC. It started as a radio show in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press, originating from WRC-AM in Washington. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... Washington Week in Review (also known as Washington Week) is a public affairs program on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). ... CBS Morning News is the half-hour daily television broadcast from CBS News that airs following Up to the Minute. ... The American Enterprise Institutes Logo The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a neoconservative think tank, founded in 1943. ... The Brookings Institution is a United States nonprofit public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C.. Described in 1977, by TIME magazine as as the nations pre-eminent liberal think tank,[1] the institution is devoted to public service through research and education in the social sciences, particularly... Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (born November 27, 1957) is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline. ...

Al Hunt was an enthusiastic proponent of the first Gulf war. On CNN's Capitol Gang he stated that he might feel differently if he had a brother in that war. Of course Hunt was quite old enough at the time to have had a son or daughter in that conflict.

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, 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. Hunt has defined himself as part of the left, but it is clear to most of his readers that he is part of the establishment press. He has long held a history of pro military industrial complex as has his wife Judy Woodruff. Judy Woodruff (born in Tulsa, OK, November 20, 1946) is an American television news anchor and journalist. ... The University of South Dakota is the state’s oldest university founded in 1862, although classes didnt start until 1882. ...

Before graduating from college, 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. The Philadelphia Bulletin was a daily evening newspaper published from 1847 to 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... The Winston-Salem Journal is a daily newspaper primarily serving the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and its county, Forsyth County, North Carolina. ... The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York City, New York, USA, with Asian and European editions, and a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million as of 2006, with 931,000 paying online subscribers. ...

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. The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy[1] at Harvard University explores the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice, striving to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the press. ... Harvard redirects here. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ...

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. The Haverford School is a private, non-sectarian, all-boys college preparatory day school, junior kindergarten through grade twelve. ... Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ...

Notes

1. ^  "1986: A Life-Changing Year", Washington Post, July 25, 1999 [1]

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External links

• Al Hunt NNDB entry.
• Al Hunt Leaves ‘WSJ’ for Bloomberg
• Interview With Al Hunt