Al Hunt

Al Hunt
Al Hunt checking his BlackBerry at the Verizon Center, February 3, 2007
Born	Albert Reinold Hunt, Jr. (1942-12-04) December 4, 1942 (age 74) Charlottesville, Virginia
Alma mater	Wake Forest University (B.A., Political Science, 1965)
Occupation	executive editor, news anchor
Notable credit(s)	Bloomberg News's Washington editor, anchor of Political Capital on Bloomberg Television
Spouse(s)	Judy Woodruff
Children	three

Albert Reinold "Al" Hunt, Jr. (born December 4, 1942) is an American columnist for Bloomberg View, the editorial arm of Bloomberg News (which is a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P.). Hunt hosts the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital on Bloomberg Television. Hunt was also a weekly panelist on CNN's Capital Gang and Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields.

Hunt was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. He 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 in 1965 and worked for the Old Gold & Black. He first married Margaret O'Toole of Pittsburgh and later married Judy Woodruff of PBS. He has three children, including a son born with spina bifida.

Before graduating from Wake Forest University, 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.

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.