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Carl Hulse | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Carl Hulse inBergen, Norway, 2022 | |
| Born | Carl E. Hulse (1954-10-19)October 19, 1954 (age 71) Ottawa, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Illinois State University |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouse | Kimberly A. Hamer Hulse |
| Children | 2 |
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Carl E. Hulse (born October 19, 1954) is the chief Washington correspondent forThe New York Times and managing editor of First Draft, a political news stream and morning email newsletter.[1] His regularNew York Times column "On Washington", described developments in Washington DC. His writing has also appeared online with MSN, MSN UK, MSN Canada, and CNBC, and in theSydney Morning Herald,Albany Business Review,Boston.com,The Economic Times, American City Business Journals, andMiami Herald.[2][3]
Hulse was born in Illinois on October 19, 1954, and raised inOttawa, Illinois. His father, Carl E. Hulse Sr.,[4] was a plumbing contractor after World War II, and his mother worked in their home after trying other work.[5] In 1976, he received an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications fromIllinois State University’s School of Communication, where as a student he was a news editor forThe Vidette. In 2007, the newspaper admitted him to The Vidette Hall of Fame. Ten years later, in 2017, the school’s College of Arts and Sciences elected him to its Hall of Fame.[6][7]
Immediately after his college graduation, he worked for theNews Tribune inLaSalle, Illinois-Peru, Illinois. Before relocating to Washington DC in 1985, he spent the early years of his career working at newspapers in Illinois and Florida,The Daily Journal inKankakee, Illinois, and theSun-Sentinel inFort Lauderdale, Florida.[8]
In 1985 he began working at theWashington, D.C. bureau ofThe New York Times and covered its regional editions, first as night editor working the 3 p.m. to midnight shift. He began covering Capitol Hill in May 2002. From 2011 to 2014, he became Washington editor for theTimes, coordinating its Washington coverage of the White House and executive branch, Congress, the courts, and the Pentagon. For more than a decade he had served as the paper's chief Congressional correspondent.
He appears occasionally onPBS'sWashington Week on Friday evenings.[9]
He lives in Washington with his wife, Kimberly Hamer Hulse, a longtimeNational Geographic employee.[10] They have two grown sons, Nicolas and Benjamin.[11]
He declares no political party. Hulse is in a local band called the Native Makers, where he plays drums, maraca, and other percussion instruments; they have written a song called "This Town"[12] and do musical entertainment on ocean cruises.