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			{{short description\|American political commentator (born 1943)}}
	'''Brit Hume''' is the ] managing editor of the ]. He hosts ''Special Report with Brit Hume'' and is a panelist on ''Fox News Sunday''. Hume graduated from the ], and is married to Kim Schiller Hume, Fox News's Washington bureau chief.
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			\|birth_name = Alexander Britton Hume
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			\|occupation = ]<br />]
			\|known_for = Chief White House Correspondent for ] (1989–1996)<br />Chief Political Analyst for ] (2008–present)<br />Host of '']'' (1996–2008)<br />Host of '']'' (2016)
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			\|children = 2, including ]
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			] ] in 1981]]
			'''Alexander Britton Hume''' (born June 22, 1943), known professionally as '''Brit Hume''', is an American ] and ]. He had a 23-year career with ], where he contributed to '']'', '']'', and '']''.<ref name=uva>{{cite news \|title=Brit Hume reflects on his life in the media \|url=http://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_reporter/ \|access-date=December 12, 2014 \|publisher=University of Virginia Reporter \|date=Spring 2008}}</ref> Hume served as the ABC News chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Huff \|first1=Richard \|title=Why Brit Hume will quit anchoring at Fox News \|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/brit-hume-quit-anchoring-fox-news-article-1.303948 \|access-date=December 12, 2014 \|newspaper=New York Daily News \|date=October 15, 2008}}</ref>

			Hume spent 12 years as ], ] of the ] and the anchor of '']''.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Gough \|first1=Paul \|title=Fox News' Brit Hume leaving for family, religion \|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hume-idUSTRE4A454420081105 \|access-date=December 12, 2014 \|work=Reuters \|date=November 5, 2008 \|archive-date=September 24, 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924135837/http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/05/us-hume-idUSTRE4A454420081105 \|url-status=live }}</ref> After retiring as the anchor of ''Special Report'' in 2008, he became a senior political analyst for Fox News and a regular panelist on '']''.
	==Career==
	Hume first worked for ], the ''Hartford Times'' and the ''Baltimore Evening Sun''.
	Later, Hume worked for ] for 23 years from ] to ], when he went to work for ]. From ] to ], Hume worked as a consultant for the documentary division. From ] to ], Hume worked as ] correspondent; in ], he became ] chief correspondent. In ], Hume won an ] for his ] coverage; in December ], he left ABC for Fox News.
	By the time Hume had left he had worked on many ABC shows, including, ''World News Tonight With ]'', '']'' and '']''.
	Hume has published two books: His ] ''Death and the Mines: Rebellion and Murder in the United Mine Workers'' and the ] ''Inside Story''.

			==Early life and education==
	==Controversy==
			He was born in ], the son of George Graham Hume and Virginia Powell ('']'' Minnigerode) Hume. Through his father, Hume is of part ] descent, descended from George Home (1698–1760), a son of the 10th ] exiled to Virginia in the aftermath of the ].<ref>{{cite web \|title=Hume, Alexander Britton \|url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hume/tree/2/42307.htm \|website=Ancestry.Com \|publisher=RootsWeb \|access-date=December 12, 2014}}</ref>
	Hume has long been the subject of controversy on the issue of his right-wing biases. Hume has contributed to the '']'', a right-wing ].
	]
	Hume also has come under fire for comments made on air. One such comment was on ], ], regarding the loss of life during the ] and ] of ]:

			Hume attended ] in Washington, D.C., at the same time as ] and graduated from the ] in ], ], with a ] in ] in 1965.<ref>{{cite magazine \|last1=Vogel \|first1=Chris \|title=Prep Schools of the Power Brokers \|url=http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/work-education/education/prep-schools-of-the-power-brokers/ \|access-date=December 12, 2014 \|magazine=Washingtonian \|date=May 1, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine \|last1=Bedard \|first1=Paul \|title=Brit Hume: I stumbled into journalism \|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/brit-hume-i-stumbled-into-journalism/article/2505358 \|access-date=December 12, 2014 \|magazine=Washington Examiner \|date=August 19, 2012}}</ref>
	::</small>"Two hundred seventy-seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that statistically speaking U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in ], which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they're incurring about 1.7 deaths, including illness and accidents each day." <small>

	Opponents attacked the factual accuracy of Hume's statement, pointing out that while someone in California has a 1 in 5.2 million chance of being murdered every day, a soldier in Iraq has a 1 in 113,000 chance of dying every day. This means that at the timne of Hume's statement, the chances of a soldier in Iraq dying were 46 times greater than the chance of a Californian being murdered.
			==Career ==
			===Print journalism===
			Hume worked first for '']'' newspaper company, and later for ] and the newspaper '']''.<ref name=foxbio>{{cite web \|title=Brit Hume \|url=http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/brit-hume/bio/#s=h-l \|publisher=Fox News Network \|access-date=December 12, 2014}}</ref> He then worked for syndicated columnist ] from 1970 to 1972.<ref name=Kurtz2006/>

			In 1971, Grossman Publishers published Hume's first book, ''Death and the mines: Rebellion and murder in the United Mine Workers'', a work revolving around complicity of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, coal companies, and the United Mine Workers union resulting in the mistreatment of average miners.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Death and the mines: Rebellion and murder in the United Mine Workers by Brit Hume \|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052040.Death_and_the_mines_ \|website=goodreads.com \|publisher=Goodreads, Inc. (Grossman Publishing) \|access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Hume, a young investigative journalist who works with Washington columnist Jack Anderson, propounds the coal conspiracy... \|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/brit-hume/death-and-the-mines-rebellion-and-murder-in-the/ \|website=kirkusreviews.com \|publisher=Kirkus Media LLC. \|access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref>

			Hume reported a story for Anderson's column "Washington Merry-Go-Round" that after ] had contributed $400,000 to the ], President ]'s ] settled the ] case against ITT. Anderson published a series of ]s indicating the ], contrary to its public pronouncements, had favored ] during the ]. After the revelations, Anderson and his staff, including Hume and his family, were briefly surveilled by the ] in 1972.<ref>
			{{cite news \|title=Documents Show CIA Spying on Journalists, Including Brit Hume and Michael Getler \|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003602243 \|agency=] \|publisher=] (via ]) \|date=June 21, 2007 \|access-date=December 31, 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116124253/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003602243 \|archive-date=January 16, 2009 \|df=mdy-all }}
			</ref><ref name=Wilderotter1975>
			{{cite web \|url=http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/family_jewels_wilderotter.pdf \|title=CIA Matters (memorandum for the file) \|access-date=January 1, 2009 \|first1=James A. \|last1=Wilderotter \|author-link=<!-- James A. Wilderotter --> \|author-link2=William Colby \|first2=William \|last2=Colby \|first3=John \|last3=Warner \|date=January 3, 1975 \|page=2 }}
			</ref> The agents observed his family going about its daily business. ] were revealed during President ]'s administration by congressional hearings and as a result of a ] lawsuit and the so-called ']' revelations.

			In 1973, Hume became Washington editor of ''MORE'' magazine, a press criticism journal,<ref name=encyclopedia/> and in 1974 Doubleday published his second book, ''Inside Story''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Inside Story by Brit Hume \|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5403298-inside-story \|website=goodreads.com \|publisher=Goodreads, Inc. (Doubleday) \|access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref>

			===1973-1996: ABC News===
			In 1973, Hume started working for ] as a consultant, and in 1976, he was offered a job as a correspondent, covering the ] and ] for 11 years. In 1979, Hume earned television's first ] nomination for his work on '']'' for ABC's ''Close-Up'' documentary program.<ref name=encyclopedia>{{cite book \|last1=Murray \|first1=Michael \|title=Encyclopedia of Television News \|year=1999 \|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group \|isbn=1573561088 \|page=100 }}<!--\|access-date=December 12, 2014--></ref>

			Hume was assigned to report on ]'s ] presidential campaign, and ]'s ] presidential campaign. In 1989, he became ABC's chief ] correspondent,<ref name="foxbio"/> covering the administrations of Presidents Bush and ] and working closely with ABC anchors ] and ].<ref name=Kurtz2006>
			{{cite news \|first=Howard \|last=Kurtz \|author-link=Howard Kurtz \|title=Moving to the Right: Brit Hume's Path Took Him from Liberal Outsider to the Low-Key Voice of Conservatism on Fox News \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041801943_pf.html \|newspaper=] \|page=C01 \|date=April 19, 2006 \|access-date=December 31, 2008}}
			</ref>

			===1996-present: Fox News===
			] pose in the George Bush Presidential Library Classroom in College Station, Texas, at President Bush's 80th birthday celebration]]
			In 1996, Hume left ABC for the Fox News Network for which his wife had recently become chief of the Washington bureau.<ref name="foxbio"/><ref name=encyclopedia/> At his last news conference as ABC's chief White House correspondent, President Clinton told him, "I think all of us think you have done an extraordinary, professional job under Republican and Democratic administrations alike."<ref name=Kurtz2006/> Hume became Fox News's Washington managing editor.

			====''Special Report w/ Brit Hume'' (1998–2008)====
			{{see also\|Special Report (Fox News program)}}
			After he began at Fox News, Hume was in discussions about starting a Washington-based television news program for the 6 p.m. timeslot. The ] began during January 1998, and Hume's wife told him the story was so well known that he should start the show immediately. ''Special Report with Brit Hume'' debuted that evening in that timeslot.<ref name=Kurtz2006/>

			Hume said of the start of his time at Fox that "we made some progress and developed some audience and the ] brought a lot of interest and the ] brought a lot of interest, but what really did it was the Florida recount – that was tremendous for us because the people who were worried about how that would come out wanted some place where they could trust the coverage, people who were conservatives or Republicans or neither but worried. And we really made an effort to cover that story well. And that built our audience."<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/brit-hume/\|title=Brit Hume on Fox News and Our Media Landscape Today}}</ref>

			The show was the number one cable news program in the 6:00 p.m. ] timeslot for several years.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010503271.html\|title=Bret Baier, the Successor to Brit Hume on Fox's 'Special Report'\|date=January 6, 2009\|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>

			In July 2008, it was announced that 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.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Kurtz \|first1=Howard \|title=Fox's Hume to Step Down \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071501744.html \|access-date=December 12, 2014 \|newspaper=Washington Post \|date=July 16, 2008}}</ref> On December 23, 2008, he hosted his final episode as anchor of ''Special Report'', announcing that ], then the chief ] correspondent for Fox News, would be his replacement. Hume also announced that he would remain with Fox News as a senior political analyst and regular panelist for the program '']''.

			On January 3, 2010, Hume on ''Fox News Sunday'', advised embattled golfer ] to ] to ] to attempt to end his problems. Hume's comments were made after the revelation of Woods' habitual adultery and the resulting deterioration of his relationship with his family.<ref>{{cite magazine\|last1=Pulliam Bailey\|first1=Sarah\|date=January 7, 2010\|title=Q & A: Brit Hume The former news anchor for Fox News explains why he told Tiger Woods to turn to the Christian faith.\|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/januaryweb-only/11-42.0.html\|magazine=Christianity Today\|access-date=December 12, 2014}}</ref>

			====''On the Record'' (2016)====
			On September 6, 2016, Hume was named the anchor of '']'' after that show's longtime anchor, ], abruptly left Fox News. He served as the program's anchor through the end of the 2016 elections.<ref>{{cite web \|first=Howard \|last=Kurtz \|title=Van Susteren leaving Fox News, Hume tapped as replacement through election \|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/van-susteren-leaving-fox-news-hume-tapped-as-replacement-through-election/ \|publisher=] \|date=September 6, 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref> (The Hill)</ref> On November 4, 2016, it was announced that ] would host a new show in the former ''On the Record'' timeslot from November 14, 2016.

			=== 2020 U.S. presidential election ===
			In late May 2020, 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.<ref>{{Cite news\|date=2020\|title=Trump, who spent Memorial Day without a face mask, shares tweet criticizing Biden for wearing one\|newspaper=The Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/trump-biden-mask-coronavirus/}}</ref> In September 2020, Hume claimed that Biden was "senile".<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Geriatrics experts say Brit Hume's claim that Joe Biden is 'senile' is wrong\|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/01/brit-hume/geriatrics-experts-say-brit-humes-claim-joe-biden-/\|access-date=2020-10-03\|website=PolitiFact\|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|last=Wilstein\|first=Matt\|date=2020-09-30\|title=Fox News Pundit Brit Hume: Joe Biden Is 'Senile' but Could Still Beat Trump in Debate\|language=en\|work=The Daily Beast\|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-pundit-brit-hume-joe-biden-is-senile-but-could-still-beat-trump-in-debate\|access-date=2020-10-03}}</ref>

			Hume joined ], ], and ] in ] and ]'s election night coverage of the ] on ].

			==Personal life==
			Hume is a conservative,<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Kurtz\|first1=Howard\|title=Bret Baier, the Successor to Brit Hume on Fox's 'Special Report'\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010503271.html\|accessdate=December 12, 2014 \|newspaper=Washington Post\|date=January 6, 2009}}</ref> remarking in 2006: "Sure, I'm a conservative, no doubt about it. But I would ask people to look at the work."<ref name=Kurtz2006/>

			Hume is divorced from his first wife, Clare Jacobs Stoner.<ref name="The Kim Hume interview">{{cite news\|title=The Kim Hume interview\|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2006/09/25/the-kim-hume-interview\|access-date=December 12, 2014\|work=Washington Whispers\|publisher=U.S. News & World Report\|date=September 25, 2006}}</ref> Their son, ], was a reporter for the newspaper '']'' and first publicized the story of the failed 1997 political attempt to replace ] ]. In February 1998, Sandy Hume died by ]. The ] honors his memory with its annual Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism.<ref name=Kurtz2006/><ref name=suicide>{{cite news\|last1=Tapper\|first1=Jake\|title=Suicide Watch\|url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/14598/suicide-watch\|access-date=December 12, 2014\|newspaper=Washington City Paper\|date=March 13, 1998}}</ref> Hume was baptized and confirmed in the ]<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c986433/user-clip-clip-qa-brit-hume {{Bare URL inline\|date=August 2024}}</ref> and has said that he committed his life to ] "in a way that was very meaningful" to him in the aftermath of his son's suicide in 1998.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010403101.html\|newspaper=]\|title=Brit Hume's off message: Have faith, Tiger Woods, as long as it's Christianity \|first=Tom\|last=Shales\|date=January 5, 2010\|access-date=April 27, 2010}}</ref>

			Brit Hume's daughter,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1040738144222633986\|website=Twitter\|title=This, from my daughter, on how the letter for Kavanaugh came about.\|date=September 14, 2018\|first1=Brit\|last1=Hume\|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Virginia Hume (born 1965<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://twitter.com/virginiahume/status/961475262830477312\|website=Twitter\|title=Yeah, well try being born in 1965.\|date=February 8, 2018\|first1=Virginia\|last1=Hume\|df=mdy-all}}</ref>), was a contributor to '']''.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Hume\|first=Virginia\|date=September 14, 2018\|title=About That Letter From Women in Support of Brett Kavanaugh\|url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/virginia-hume/about-that-letter-from-women-in-support-of-brett-kavanaugh\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180917182929/https://www.weeklystandard.com/virginia-hume/about-that-letter-from-women-in-support-of-brett-kavanaugh\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=September 17, 2018\|work=]\|access-date=September 16, 2018}}</ref> She worked for 25 years as a public relations, political communications and traditional marketing professional.<ref name=Boyle>{{cite web\|url=http://www.boylepublicaffairs.com/our-team\|title=Virginia Hume\|website=boylepublicaffairs.com\|publisher=Boyle Public Affairs, LLC\|access-date=September 16, 2018}}</ref> Her political experience includes serving as a deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee in 1996.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?virginiahume\|title=Virginia Hume on the C-SPAN Networks\|date=December 14, 1996\|website=c-span.org\|publisher=]\|access-date=September 16, 2018}}</ref>

			In 1993, Hume married Kim Schiller, who was a Fox News vice president and Washington bureau chief before she retired in 2006.<ref name="The Kim Hume interview"/>

			==Awards and honors==

			* ] for coverage of the ] (1991)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?205575-1/qa-brit-hume\|title=Q&A – Brit Hume\|date=July 20, 2008\|publisher=]\|access-date=November 19, 2014}}
			</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=http://rmcnews.org/?p=22\|title=Brit Hume to be 2014 Speaker\|last1=Wallace\|first1=Lena\|date=May 26, 2014\|work=The Yellow Jacket\|access-date=December 12, 2014\|publisher=Randolph-Macon College\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213040047/http://rmcnews.org/?p=22\|archive-date=December 13, 2014\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			* ] "Best in the Business" award (twice) for White House coverage<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://bicentennial.virginia.edu/alexander-brit-hume\|title=Alexander (Brit) Hume {{!}} University of Virginia Bicentennial\|website=bicentennial.virginia.edu\|language=en\|access-date=2018-06-08}}</ref>
			* Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism (2003)<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://nationalpress.org/awards/sol-taishoff-award-for-excellence-in-broadcast-journalism/\|title=Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism - National Press Foundation\|work=National Press Foundation\|access-date=2018-06-08\|language=en-US}}</ref>
			*Writer of ], which was nominated for ]<ref>{{Citation\|last1=Priestley\|first1=Tom\|title=The Killing Ground\|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079402/\|last2=Singer\|first2=Steve\|others=Brit Hume\|access-date=2018-06-08}}</ref>

			==Bibliography==
			* {{Cite book \|title=Death and the Mines – Rebellion and Murder in the United Mine Workers \|url=https://archive.org/details/deathminesrebell0000hume \|access-date=December 31, 2008 \|year=1971 \|publisher=Grossman \|location=] \|isbn=0-670-26105-X \|url-access=registration }}
			* {{Cite book \|title=Inside Story \|url=https://archive.org/details/insidestory00hume \|access-date=December 31, 2008 \|edition=1st \|year=1974 \|publisher=] \|location=] \|isbn=0-385-06526-4 }} (a ] of his days working with columnist ])

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American political commentator (born 1943)

Brit Hume
Hume in 2004
Born	Alexander Britton Hume (1943-06-22) June 22, 1943 (age 81) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Education	University of Virginia (BA)
Occupation(s)	Journalist Political commentator
Known for	Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News (1989–1996) Chief Political Analyst for Fox News (2008–present) Host of Special Report (1996–2008) Host of On the Record (2016)
Spouses	Clare Jacobs Stoner (divorced) Kim Schiller (m. 1993)
Children	2, including Sandy

Hume with President Ronald Reagan in 1981

Alexander Britton Hume (born June 22, 1943), known professionally as Brit Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. He had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week. Hume served as the ABC News chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996.

Hume spent 12 years as Washington, D.C., managing editor of the Fox News Channel and the anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume. After retiring as the anchor of Special Report in 2008, he became a senior political analyst for Fox News and a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday.

Early life and education

He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of George Graham Hume and Virginia Powell (née Minnigerode) Hume. Through his father, Hume is of part Scottish descent, descended from George Home (1698–1760), a son of the 10th Baron of Wedderburn exiled to Virginia in the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion.

Hume attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., 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.

Career

Print journalism

Hume worked first for The Hartford Times newspaper company, and later for United Press International and the newspaper Baltimore Evening Sun. He then worked for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson from 1970 to 1972.

In 1971, Grossman Publishers published Hume's first book, Death and the mines: Rebellion and murder in the United Mine Workers, a work revolving around complicity of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, coal companies, and the United Mine Workers union resulting in the mistreatment of average miners.

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. Anderson published a series of classified documents indicating the Nixon administration, contrary to its public pronouncements, had favored Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. After the revelations, Anderson and his staff, including Hume and his family, were briefly surveilled by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1972. The agents observed his family going about its daily business. The documents were revealed during President Gerald Ford's administration by congressional hearings and as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and the so-called 'Family Jewels' revelations.

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

1973-1996: ABC News

In 1973, Hume started working for ABC News as a consultant, and in 1976, he was offered a job as a correspondent, covering the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate for 11 years. In 1979, Hume earned television's first Academy Award nomination for his work on The Killing Ground for ABC's Close-Up documentary program.

Hume was assigned to report on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, and George H. W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign. In 1989, he became ABC's chief White House correspondent, covering the administrations of Presidents Bush and Bill Clinton and working closely with ABC anchors Peter Jennings and Charlie Gibson.

1996-present: Fox News

In 1996, Hume left ABC for the Fox News Network for which his wife had recently become chief of the Washington bureau. At his last news conference as ABC's chief White House correspondent, President Clinton told him, "I think all of us think you have done an extraordinary, professional job under Republican and Democratic administrations alike." Hume became Fox News's Washington managing editor.

Special Report w/ Brit Hume (1998–2008)

After he began at Fox News, Hume was in discussions about starting a Washington-based television news program for the 6 p.m. timeslot. The Lewinsky scandal began during January 1998, and Hume's wife told him the story was so well known that he should start the show immediately. Special Report with Brit Hume debuted that evening in that timeslot.

Hume said of the start of his time at Fox that "we made some progress and developed some audience and the Lewinsky scandal brought a lot of interest and the 2000 election brought a lot of interest, but what really did it was the Florida recount – that was tremendous for us because the people who were worried about how that would come out wanted some place where they could trust the coverage, people who were conservatives or Republicans or neither but worried. And we really made an effort to cover that story well. And that built our audience."

The show was the number one cable news program in the 6:00 p.m. Eastern timeslot for several years.

In July 2008, it was announced that 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. On December 23, 2008, he hosted his final episode as anchor of Special Report, announcing that Bret Baier, then the chief White House correspondent for Fox News, would be his replacement. Hume also announced that he would remain with Fox News as a senior political analyst and regular panelist for the program Fox News Sunday.

On January 3, 2010, Hume on Fox News Sunday, advised embattled golfer Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity to attempt to end his problems. Hume's comments were made after the revelation of Woods' habitual adultery and the resulting deterioration of his relationship with his family.

On the Record (2016)

On September 6, 2016, Hume was named the anchor of On the Record after that show's longtime anchor, Greta Van Susteren, abruptly left Fox News. He served as the program's anchor through the end of the 2016 elections. 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. On November 4, 2016, it was announced that Tucker Carlson would host a new show in the former On the Record timeslot from November 14, 2016.

2020 U.S. presidential election

In late May 2020, 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. In September 2020, Hume claimed that Biden was "senile".

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.

Personal life

Hume is a conservative, remarking in 2006: "Sure, I'm a conservative, no doubt about it. But I would ask people to look at the work."

Hume is divorced from his first wife, Clare Jacobs Stoner. Their son, Sandy Hume, was a reporter for the newspaper The Hill and first publicized the story of the failed 1997 political attempt to replace Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In February 1998, Sandy Hume died by suicide. The National Press Club honors his memory with its annual Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. Hume was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal Church and 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.

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

In 1993, Hume married Kim Schiller, who was a Fox News vice president and Washington bureau chief before she retired in 2006.

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

Bibliography

Death and the Mines – Rebellion and Murder in the United Mine Workers. New York: Grossman. 1971. ISBN 0-670-26105-X. Retrieved December 31, 2008.
Inside Story (1st ed.). Garden City, New York: Doubleday. 1974. ISBN 0-385-06526-4. Retrieved December 31, 2008. (a memoir of his days working with columnist Jack Anderson)

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External links

Brit Hume at IMDb
Appearances on C-SPAN

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