Charlie Hurt

Charles Hurt is a reporter and political commentator. He is currently the opinion editor of the Washington Times and a contributor to Fox News. Previously, he was an editor at Drudge Report and the New York Post‘s D.C. bureau chief covering Washington politics.

Hurt got his first job in newspapers when he was 11 years old after he started a little newspaper with his older brother and younger sister called “The Gilmer News & Gossip”. As Managing Editor, he covered everything from barn burnings to dead squirrels to the carnival that came to town. It was a small, one-page paper that sold for a nickel a copy but stirred up plenty of controversy and gave Hurt a taste of the power of the press—for both good and evil.

While in college, Hurt started working for real newspapers, starting with The Danville Register & Bee and The Richmond Times-Dispatch. He spent a summer working for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After college, he got his first full-time newspaper job working for The Detroit News, covering crime, city schools, the mafia, courts, and local politics. During his seven years in Detroit, he became part of an award-winning, two-man investigative team that exposed rampant political corruption in a city schools building program and revealed how dozens of city residents had died as a result of the city’s chronically mismanaged fire department.

Two weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurt moved to Washington, D.C. to become national correspondent for the Charlotte Observer. He would later become lead reporter for The Washington Times.

In 2007, Hurt was hired as DC Bureau Chief of The New York Post, where he served as White House correspondent. After five years, Hurt left The New York Post to become editor for the "Drudge Report."

Hurt lives with his wife and three children in Chatham, Virginia, the small tobacco town where he grew up and his entire family still resides.