Peter Hamby

Peter Hamby
Hamby at the Democratic National Convention in 2012
Born	Peter Lawrence Hamby Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.
Education	Georgetown University, New York University
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	2005–present

Peter Hamby is an award-winning American political journalist. He is currently the Head of News at Snapchat. He began his journalism career at CNN. Hamby has been described as an early adopter among political journalists of social media.

Hamby began his career at CNN in 2005 as a producer on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. He won multiple Emmy Awards at the network. In 2008, Hamby covered the presidential election for CNN, covering the primary in South Carolina and ultimately being embedded as a reporter covering John McCain’s campaign during the general election and the Vice presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin. Hamby covered the 2012 presidential election as a political reporter for CNN, where he earned a reputation for breaking stories about campaign politics.Politico named him one of the "breakout reporters" of the 2012 campaign.

In 2013, Hamby was named national political correspondent for CNN and CNN Digital.

After the 2012 election, Hamby took a sabbatical from CNN to be a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. While there, Hamby wrote a paper titled “Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?” on how political reporting has evolved in the age of Twitter, which was widely discussed by political commentators and journalists.The Washington Post called it "the definitive work" on how political journalism has been re-shaped by technology.