Best known for her twenty-year tenure with Public Broadcasting System (PBS)'s MacNeil/Lehrer News-Hour, Hunter-Gault has covered breaking events in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, and she has interviewed numerous important international figures, such as former South Africa president Nelson Mandela. In 1999 Hunter-Gault became South African bureau chief for the Cable News Network (CNN), and from that base she has traveled widely in Africa to report on news events and political trends. Honored with Emmy Awards and George Foster Peabody awards for her work in television journalism, Hunter-Gault is one of the best known African-American women broadcasters at work today.