Brit Hume, the pen name of American journalist Alexander Britton Hume, is a political pundit. He worked for ABC News for 23 years, contributing to This Week, Nightline, and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. From 1989 through 1996, Hume worked as the principal White House correspondent for ABC News.
Hume declared in 2006: “Sure, I’m a conservative, no question about that. However, I would suggest that they examine the work.
Clare Jacobs Stoner, Hume’s first wife, and he are no longer married. The narrative of the unsuccessful 1997 attempt to unseat Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was first made public by their son Sandy Hume, a reporter for the daily The Hill. The suicide of Sandy Hume occurred in February 1998. His legacy is honored by the National Press Club’s yearly Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. In the wake of his son’s suicide in 1998, Brit Hume claims that he gave his life to Jesus Christ “in a way that was very meaningful” to him.
Virginia Hume, who was born in 1965, contributed to The Weekly Standard. She was Brit Hume’s daughter. She spent 25 years working in traditional marketing, political communications, and public relations. Her political background includes working as the Republican National Committee’s deputy press secretary in 1996.
Kim Schiller Hume, a Fox News vice president and head of the Washington bureau before she departed in 2006, was married to Hume in 1993.