Hunter Walker

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]