Karen Hunter - Career

Career

Between 1996 and 1998, Hunter taught journalism at New York University.

Hunter spent four years as a part of the New York Daily News' seven-member editorial board. In 1999, she was a concurrent member of respective news teams that won the Pulitzer Prize and the Polk Award. Prior to that she was the paper’s first African-American female news columnist. She joined the newspaper as a sports writer in 1988, then wrote features and business stories.

In January 2002, Hunter was appointed by the Hunter College administration as an Assistant Visiting Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and presently is a Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College. She also was a morning radio talk show host for three years in New York City.

In 2006 she left her position as a morning talk show host on New York station (1600 AM) WWRL. Her departure followed the dissolution of an early morning team composed of her and WABC personality Steve Malzberg.

In 2007, she launched Karen Hunter Publishing, an imprint of Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster. She has published "Why Black Men Love White Women," "Faith Under Fire," "Love On A Two-Way Street," "Recipes for a Good Life," with Patti Labelle and epic griotsong "The Children of Children Keep Coming," with Wall Street pioneer Russell L. Goings. As a writer, Hunter has co-authored five New York Times best-sellers, among which are books with Queen Latifah, Al Sharpton, Mason Betha, Karrine Steffans, LL Cool J, Wendy Williams, J. L. King, Donda West, Sandy Denton, Cedric the Entertainer, and Jonathan Plummer.

On January 31, 2007 Hunter appeared on CNN's Paula Zahn Now in a piece on atheists in America. During the open forum portion she made several controversial comments suggesting that "If they had Hallmark cards, maybe they wouldn't feel so left out. We have Christmas cards. We have Kwanzaa cards now. Maybe they need to get some atheist cards and get that whole ball rolling so more people can get involved with what they're doing. I think they need to shut up and let people do what they do."

On April 11, 2011, on her Facebook page Hunter called for a boycott of the television show Celebrity Apprentice in reactions to comments Trump made about Barack Obama. She said in a later interview: "So many of us were angered and outraged by Trump’s comments and I wanted to let us know that we have power. We can do something besides grumble and complain."

In 2012, Hunter referred on MSNBC to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney with the following disparaging remark, "aybe not running for the presidency of the United States, maybe he's running for the presidency of 'Caucasia-stan' or some place that doesn't have anyone of color in it."