PERSON: Peter Hamby

Political Contributor

Peter Hamby is a political contributor for CNN and Snapchat’s Head of News.

Hamby began his career at CNN as part of the team that launched The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, and spent nearly 10 years with the network, including serving as CNN’s South Carolina embed for the 2008 campaign. Hamby was one of CNN’s lead reporters during the Emmy Award-winning election coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign, traveling to many of the battleground states with a focus Republican primary contest and Mitt Romney’s campaign.
His CNN Digital video series “Hambycast,” broke ground by giving viewers unique insider access into the world of political campaigns to meet the players and places that really drive American politics.

Hamby is known as an early adopter of social media platforms, and as a Spring 2013 fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, he authored “Did Twitter Kill The Boys On The Bus?,” a widely-circulated study on the impact of Twitter on media behavior and campaign press strategy.

POLITICO named Hamby one of “10 Breakout Political Reporters of 2012,” while Slate dubbed him a “roving scoop machine.”

Hamby has a bachelor’s degree in English and African Studies from Georgetown University, and a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

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