The Quarterdeck: A Camp Sea Gull Podcast
Aug 4, 2026 · 46 min · 10 segments
Political Journalist and former Athletics Counselor, Peter Hamby, joins us for this episode. After his time at Sea Gull and his graduation from Georgetown, Peter worked for CNN for a decade where he…
Peter HambyGuest
Bear BashfordHost
And then [laughs] m- moving on from, from that sad news, one of the things that you really innovated that, that's so cool about your career was with the origin of sort of people reading the news on their phones, you had the, the foresight to say, "Hey, people are beginning to watch less TV," and thinking more-
... getting, getting their news, um, in a vertical format, and you were sort of the originator of that format.
'Cause we live, uh, right now in my world, in media, journalism, politics, there's a, an obsession with creators and vertical video.
And by the way, this is, this is difficult for traditional journalism because more and more people are getting news and information, a lot of it not serious or not credible from-
But by the way, to Snapchat's great credit, back in the 2015 when they hired me, this, this stuff was obvious to me.
But when I left CNN and told them where I was going, people were like, "Well, uh, like..." I looked like I was, you know-
I'd gone to the bottom of the swim lake and covered myself in mud and walked around naked or something.
And obviously that was the, the future in hindsight, but I, I take some pride in the fact that I was one of the first people to develop, you know, a new show that millions of people watch, young people specifically.
And then [laughs] m- moving on from, from that sad news, one of the things that you really innovated that, that's so cool about your career was with the origin of sort of people reading the news on their phones, you had the, the foresight to say, "Hey, people are beginning to watch less TV," and thinking more-
... getting, getting their news, um, in a vertical format, and you were sort of the originator of that format.
'Cause we live, uh, right now in my world, in media, journalism, politics, there's a, an obsession with creators and vertical video.
And by the way, this is, this is difficult for traditional journalism because more and more people are getting news and information, a lot of it not serious or not credible from-
But by the way, to Snapchat's great credit, back in the 2015 when they hired me, this, this stuff was obvious to me.
But when I left CNN and told them where I was going, people were like, "Well, uh, like..." I looked like I was, you know-
I'd gone to the bottom of the swim lake and covered myself in mud and walked around naked or something.
And obviously that was the, the future in hindsight, but I, I take some pride in the fact that I was one of the first people to develop, you know, a new show that millions of people watch, young people specifically.
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