Brit Hume

At 80 years old, Brit Hume has this physical status:

Alexander Britton "Brit" Hume (born June 22, 1943) is an American conservative television commentator and political commentator.

Hume spent 23 years with ABC News, where he appeared on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week.

He served as ABC's chief White House reporter from 1989 to 1996.

He spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C., managing editor of the Fox News Channel and anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume.

Since retiring as the anchor of Special Report in 2008, he has served as a senior political analyst for Fox News and a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday.

He was named interim anchor of On the Record in September 2016 after the show's longtime host, Greta Van Susteren's abrupt departure, and served in that role until the 2016 elections.

Early life and education

He was born in Washington, D.C., and the son of George Graham Hume and Virginia Powell (née Minnigerode) Hume. Hume, a son of the 10th Baron of Wedderburn who was exiled to Virginia in the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion, descends from George Home (1698-1760).

Hume graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1965.

Personal life

Hume is a conservative, and remarking in 2006: "I'm a conservative, there's no doubt about it." However, I would recommend that you investigate the work."

Hume is divorced from his first wife, Clare Jacobs Stoner. Sandy Hume, their son, was a reporter for The Hill and first published the news of the failed 1997 political bid to replace Speaker Newt Gingrich. Sandy Hume died of suicide in February 1998. With the annual Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism, the National Press Club honors his life. In the aftermath of his son's suicide in 1998, British Hume said he committed his life to Jesus Christ "in a way that was very meaningful" to him.

Virginia Hume (born 1965), Brit Hume's daughter, was a contributing writer to The Weekly Standard. She worked in public relations, political affairs, and traditional marketing for 25 years. Her political work includes stints as a deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee in 1996.

Hume married Kim Schiller Hume, who was both a Fox News vice president and Washington bureau chief before she resigned in 2006.

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Career

Hume began working for The Hartford Times newspaper company and later for United Press International and the Baltimore Evening Sun. He served for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson from 1970 to 1972.

Hume's first book, Death and the Mine Workers, was published in 1971, a book that revolving around the US Bureau of Mines, coal workers, and the United Mine Workers union, which culminated in average miners' mistreatment.

Hume told Anderson's column "Washington Merry-Go-Round" that after ITT Corporation had donated $400,000 to the 1972 Republican National Convention, President Richard Nixon's Department settled the antitrust lawsuit against ITT. Anderson also pointed out a series of classified papers indicating that the Nixon administration, contrary to its public statements, favoured Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War. Anderson and his employees, including Hume and his families, were briefly surprised by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1972 after the revelations, but the Central Intelligence Agency kept them briefed. The agents observed his family doing their regular work. The documents were revealed during President Gerald Ford's tenure as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and the so-called 'Family Jewels' revelations.

Hume became the Washington editor of MORE magazine, a press criticism magazine, in 1973, and Inside Story, his second book, was published in 1974.

Hume began as a journalist with ABC News in 1973 and then went to work as a reporter, covering the US House of Representatives and the Senate for 11 years. Hume received his first Academy Award nomination for his work on ABC's Close-Up documentary series in 1979.

Hume was chosen to cover Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential bid and 1988 presidential campaign. In 1989, he became ABC's top White House reporter, covering President Bush and Bill Clinton's administrations and consulting closely with ABC anchors Peter Jennings and Charlie Gibson.

Hume left ABC for the Fox News Network in 1996, where his wife had recently been appointed chief of the Washington bureau. "I think everyone of us think you've done a remarkable, expert job under both Republican and Democratic administrations alike," President Clinton told him at his last news conference as ABC's chief White House reporter. Hume became Fox News' Washington managing editor.

Hume joined Fox News in discussing the launch of a Washington-based television news service for the 6 p.m. timeslot. Hume's wife told him the Lewinsky affair began in January 1998 and it was so well known that he should begin the show right away. The special edition of the British Hume appeared in the timeslot on Wednesday evening.

Hume said at the start of his Fox tenure that "we made some strides and gained some attention"; the Lewinsky affair sparked a lot of attention, but we were left wondering about the fact that nobody was going to believe, conservatives, Republicans, or even both anxious. And we did a good job covering the story. "We created our audience."

For many years, the show was the most popular cable news show in the 6:00 p.m. Eastern Timeslot.

Hume will leave as the anchor of Special Report in July 2008, but in a different role, he will remain on Fox News in a different capacity. Bret Baier, then the chief White House correspondent for Fox News, was his replacement on December 23, 2008, on his last episode as anchor of Special Report. Hume also confirmed that he will remain with Fox News as a senior political strategist and regular panelist for the program Fox News on Sunday.

Hume, a Fox News contributor, urged struggling golfer Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity in an attempt to resolve his golfer's condition on January 3, 2010. Hume's remarks came after the revelation of Woods' regular adultery and the consequent destruction of his family relations.

Hume was appointed anchor of On the Record on September 6, 2016, but Greta Van Susteren, the show's longtime anchor, abruptly left Fox News on September 6, 2016. He served as the program's anchor until the 2016 elections. On the Record, Hume's first show as host drew 2.4 million viewers, up by a double-digit increase over Van Susteren's average viewing audience in 2016. Tucker Carlson, who appeared in the old On the Record Timeslot from November 14, 2016, was announced on November 4, 2016.

Hume chastised presuming Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for wearing a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic, while still implying that not wearing one was beneficial for President Donald Trump. Hume called Biden "senile" in September 2020.

On Fox News, Hume joined Chris Wallace, Juan Williams, and Dana Perino in Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum's election night coverage of the 2020 United States Presidential election. They gained in terms of election coverage in the Nielsen ratings that night.

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Awards and honors

• Emmy Award for coverage of the Gulf War (1991)
• American Journalism Review "Best in the Business" award (twice) for White House coverage
• Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism (2003)
• Writer of The Killing Ground (film), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature