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. Before joining
Bloomberg News in January 2005, Hunt worked for
The Wall Street Journal. During his 35 years in its 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." He 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. In October 2014,
Charlie Rose introduced a segment called "Al Hunt on the Story" as a "regular feature interview"; Hunt's first interview under this banner was with Secretary of State
John Kerry. Hunt is a member of
Wake Forest University's board of trustees and the board of the Children's Charities in Washington, and has been an advisory board member 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. On June 18, 2008, Hunt was one of 10 people chosen to remember journalist
Tim Russert, who had died days before, at his memorial service at
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ==Appearances==