Peter Hamby is an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning political journalist based in Los Angeles. He is a founding partner of Puck News, where he writes about politics, media and technology, and hosts Puck’s daily podcast The Powers That Be. Peter is also the host of Good Luck America, Snapchat’s award-winning original series about American politics, aimed at younger news consumers on the platform. He joined Snapchat in 2015 to build the company’s news products after spending a decade at CNN in Washington, where he covered five election cycles for the network and won an Emmy Award for his reporting on the 2012 presidential race. Peter is also the author of “Did Twitter Kill The Boys On The Bus?,” a 2013 Harvard study on how Twitter forever changed politics and media coverage, which The Washington Post called “the definitive work” on how Twitter upended American politics. Peter has also written for Vanity Fair and the Washington Post, and he is on the board of the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service. He is a native of Richmond, Virginia.
