Brit Hume served as the ABC News chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996.
24 Facts About Brit Hume
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Brit Hume was born in Washington, DC, the son of George Graham Hume and Virginia Powell Hume.
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Brit Hume attended St Albans School in Washington, DC, at the same time as Al Gore and graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1965.
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Brit Hume worked first for The Hartford Times newspaper company, and later for United Press International and the newspaper Baltimore Evening Sun.
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Brit Hume then worked for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson from 1970 to 1972.
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Brit Hume reported a story for Anderson's column "Washington Merry-Go-Round" that after ITT Corporation had contributed $400,000 to the 1972 Republican National Convention, President Richard Nixon's Department of Justice settled the antitrust case against ITT.
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In 1973, Brit Hume became Washington editor of MORE magazine, a press criticism journal, and in 1974 Doubleday published his second book, Inside Story.
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In 1973, Brit Hume started working for ABC News as a consultant, and in 1976, he was offered a job as a correspondent, covering the US House of Representatives and US Senate for 11 years.
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In 1979, Brit Hume earned television's first Academy Award nomination for his work on The Killing Ground for ABC's Close-Up documentary program.
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In 1996, Brit Hume left ABC for the Fox News Network for which his wife had recently become chief of the Washington bureau.
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The Lewinsky scandal began during January 1998, and Brit Hume's wife told him the story was so well known that he should start the show immediately.
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Special Report with Brit Hume debuted that evening in that timeslot.
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In July 2008, it was announced that Brit Hume would retire as anchor of Special Report at the end of the year, but he would remain on Fox News in a different role.
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Brit Hume announced that he would remain with Fox News as a senior political analyst and regular panelist for the program Fox News Sunday.
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Brit Hume's comments were made after the revelation of Woods' habitual adultery and the resulting deterioration of his relationship with his family.
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On September 6,2016, Brit Hume was named the anchor of On the Record after that show's longtime anchor, Greta Van Susteren, abruptly left Fox News.
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Brit Hume served as the program's anchor through the end of the 2016 elections.
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Brit Hume's first show as host of On the Record drew 2.4 million viewers, a double-digit increase over Van Susteren's average viewing audience in 2016.
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In late May 2020, Brit Hume criticized presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for wearing a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic while suggesting that it was positive for President Donald Trump to not wear one.
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Brit 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 on Fox News.
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Brit Hume is divorced from his first wife, Clare Jacobs Stoner.
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Brit Hume has said that he committed his life to Jesus Christ "in a way that was very meaningful" to him in the aftermath of his son's suicide in 1998.
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Brit Hume worked for 25 years as a public relations, political communications and traditional marketing professional.
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In 1993, Brit Hume married Kim Schiller Brit Hume, who was a Fox News vice president and Washington bureau chief before she retired in 2006.