Hunter Walker | |
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| Born | 10 September 1984 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Website | Hunter Walker at Twitter |
Hunter Walker (born September 10, 1984) is an investigative reporter and author from Brooklyn, New York City. [1]
Walker has written for a variety of magazines and websites including Rolling Stone , [2] The New Yorker , [3] New York Magazine , [4] Vanity Fair , [5] The Atlantic , [6] the Village Voice , [7] National Geographic, [8] Columbia Journalism Review , [9] and Gawker.com. [10]
Walker is co-author with Luppe B. Luppen of The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party. [11]
Walker spent five years [12] at Yahoo! News where he was a White House Correspondent during the entirety of the Trump administration. [13] He has worked for several other news organizations as a reporter and editor covering politics including the New York Observer , [1] Business Insider , [11] and Talking Points Memo . [14]
During 2021 and 2022, Walker authored a Substack newsletter that was focused on the January 6 United States Capitol attack. [15] His coverage of the attack, which included live broadcasts from the scene at the U.S. Capitol [16] and a series of articles for Rolling Stone [2] has been widely cited [17] [18] [19] and was among the first reporting detailing planning efforts and communications between Mark Meadows, the Trump family, [20] members of Congress, and activists involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election. [21] [22] In 2022, he co-authored a book with former Congressman Denver Riggleman titled The Breach. [23] The book details Riggleman's work on the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
Before covering politics, Walker worked in Hollywood [24] where he was employed by The Daily and helped launch its gossip section with former Page Six editor Richard Johnson. [25] Walker also covered the television industry for the TheWrap .com. [26]
Walker has conducted exclusive interviews with several major political figures including Donald Trump, [27] Bernie Sanders, [28] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, [29] and Cory Booker. [30] He is a 2010 graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism. [31]