Al Hunt is the Washington managing editor of Bloomberg News and, since 1988, has been a panelist on CNN's The Capital Gang with Robert Novak, Mark Shields, Kate O'Beirne and Margaret Carlson.

Previously, Hunt was the executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal and a member of the long-running Novak, Hunt & Shields, the weekly CNN program featuring in-depth interviews with top newsmakers.

In 1993, he became the Executive Washington Editor, writing the weekly editorial page column, "Politics & People," and directing the paper's political polls. He is president of the board of directors of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and a director of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., a Dow Jones subsidiary.

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 the American Enterprise Institute's The American Elections of 1980, The American Elections of 1982, The American Elections of 1984 and the 1987 Brookings Institute's Elections American Style.

Hunt was the recipient of the William Allen White Foundation's national citation in 1999.

Presented annually, the citation is one of the highest honors in journalism. In 1995, he and his wife, Judy Woodruff, CNN's prime anchor and senior correspondent, received the Allen H. Neuhart Award for Excellence in Journalism from the University of South Dakota. In 1976, Hunt received a Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting.

Before graduating from college, Hunt worked for The Philadelphia Bulletin and the Winston-Salem (N.C.) 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. He rose within the Journal's ranks from reporter to Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief.

Hunt earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Wake Forest University.