Karen Hunter

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Karen Hunter is an American journalist, writing collaborator and publisher. In 2007, she launched Karen Hunter Publishing, an imprint of Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster. She has published "Why Black Men Love White Women" and "Faith Under Fire." 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, JL King, Donda West, Sandy Denton and Cedric the Entertainer [1].

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.

Hunter has a B.A. in English Literature from Drew University. In January 2002, Karen was appointed by the Hunter College administration as an Assistant Visiting Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies. For the 2006-2007 academic year, she has been given a full-time appointment under the title Distinguished Lecturer.

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

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 comprised of her and WABC personality Steve Malzberg.

Hunter resides in Orange, New Jersey.

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 [atheists] had hallmark cards, maybe they wouldn't feel so left out. We have Christmas cards. We have Kwanza 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." [2]