Peter Hamby

Peter Hamby is a national political reporter for CNN, based in the Washington bureau. He reports on campaigns and politics across multiple platforms for CNN’s domestic and international television networks and covers digital politics for CNN.com. He covered the 2012 presidential race, with a focus on the Republican primary contest and Mitt Romney’s campaign. During the 2008 race, he was an embedded producer and off-air reporter covering the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Sarah Palin. Hamby joined CNN in 2005 as producer on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. While a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he looked into the impact of online journalism on the transparency of political campaigns.