He attended Wake Forest University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1965 and worked for the Old Gold & Black.

[2] Before graduating from Wake Forest University, Hunt worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Winston-Salem Journal.

[6] 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.

[10][11] In 1999, Hunt received the William Allen White Foundation's national citation, one of the highest honors in journalism.

[12][13] In 1995, he and his wife, Judy Woodruff, received the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism from the University of South Dakota.