Charles Hurt
{{short description|American journalist and political commentator}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Charles Hurt
| image = Charlie Hurt by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Hurt in 2018
| birth_date = 1971
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater = Hampden-Sydney College
| occupation = Journalist, columnist, political commentator
| spouse = Stephanie Hurt
| children = 3
| relatives = Robert Hurt (brother)
}}
Charles Hurt (born 1971){{cite web |last1=Rothstein |first1=Betsy |title=50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill: Charlie Hurt |url=https://thehill.com/capital-living/20738-50-most-beautiful-people-on-capitol-hill-40-more/ |website=TheHill.com |date=24 July 2007}} is an American journalist and political commentator. He is currently the opinion editor of The Washington Times,{{Cite web|title = Matt Drudge Hire Second Political Writer|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/charles-hurt-drudge-report-washington-times_n_861231.html|website = The Huffington Post|access-date = 2016-02-23}}{{cite web|title = Charles Hurt {{!}} Stories - Washington Times|url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/charles-hurt/|website = Washingtontimes.com|accessdate = 2016-02-23}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/18/charles-hurt-rejoins-the-washington-times-as-new-o/|title=Charles Hurt rejoins The Washington Times as new opinion editor|work=The Washington Times|access-date=2017-05-03|language=en-US}} as well as a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. Hurt's views have been considered to be Republican-leaning.
Career
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.mitchellspublications.com/ur/loc/hurtc/01/|title=Charlie Hurt: Biographical Notes|date=2009|publisher=Mitchells Publications|accessdate=2 February 2018}}
Hurt was The New York Post
From 2003 to 2007, Hurt covered the U.S. Congress as a reporter for The Washington Times before leaving to join The New York Post. In 2011, he rejoined The Washington Times as a political columnist. In December 2016, Hurt was named the opinion editor.
National Review editor Rich Lowry described Hurt as "an early adopter of Donald Trump populism."{{Cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/the-trump-show-214075|title=The Trump Dynasty Takes Over the GOP|last=|first=|date=|website=Politicom|access-date= 2017-05-03}}
In January 2025, it was announced that he was named co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend.
Personal life
Hurt was born in Chatham, Virginia.{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/capital-living/20738-50-most-beautiful-people-on-capitol-hill-40-more/|title=50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill - 40 More|last=Staff|first=The Hill|date=2007-07-24|website=The Hill|language=en|access-date=2019-11-19}} Hurt is the son of investigative journalist and former Reader's Digest editor Henry C. Hurt and his wife, Margaret Nolting Williams.{{cite web |title=Troth is Announced of Miss Williams, Henry C. Hurt, Jr. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/5939652/ |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Danville Register |accessdate=18 July 2018 |page=12-C |date=8 September 1968}}{{cite web |title=Chatham native Charles Hurt to become opinion page editor at The Washington Times |url=https://godanriver.com/work_it_sova/news/chatham-native-charles-hurt-to-become-opinion-page-editor-at/article_b8676530-c8a3-11e6-8402-67d36516b481.html |website=godanriver.com |accessdate=18 July 2018 |date=22 December 2016}} His older brother, Robert Hurt, is a former United States Congressman. Charles Hurt had been a possible congressional candidate before his brother's term ended in 2016. Hurt and his wife, Stephanie, have three children.{{cite web |title=Charlie Hurt: Biographical Notes |url=https://www.mitchellspublications.com/ur/loc/hurtc/01/ |publisher=Mitchells Publications |accessdate=18 July 2018}}{{cite web |title=Charles Hurt |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/666/000403454/ |website=NNDB.com |publisher=Soylent Communications |accessdate=18 July 2018}}
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|1005845}}
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Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:American political writers
Category:American reporters and correspondents
Category:Hampden–Sydney College alumni
Category:People from Chatham, Virginia
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:St. Louis Post-Dispatch people