Hurt began his newspaper career as a boy in
Chatham, Virginia, writing and publishing the "Gilmer Gazette," named for the street on which he lived. During college at
Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia he did stints at the
Danville Register & Bee, the
Richmond Times-Dispatch and the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His first full-time job after graduating in 1995 was at
The Detroit News where he became a replacement worker during a bitter strike. He worked at the paper until 2001, when he moved to the
Washington, D.C. area to join the staff of
The Charlotte Observer. From 2003 to 2007, Hurt covered the U.S. Congress as a reporter for
The Washington Times In January 2025, it was announced that he was named co-host of
Fox & Friends Weekend. ==Personal life==