Mary Katharine Ham

Mary Katharine Ham (born April 5, 1980) is an American journalist. She is Editor-at-Large of Hot Air, a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine, and a Fox News Channel contributor.[1]  At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the ACU Blogger of the Year award.[2]



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[hide]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[ edit] == Mary Katharine Ham was born on April 5, 1980 in Montgomery, Alabama. She was raised in Durham, North Carolina and graduated from Riverside High School in 1998.[3]  She graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
 * 2 Personal life
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links

Ham wrote for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com where she was a columnist and managing editor, and The Washington Examiner.[4]  Hervideo blog series for Townhall.com, HamNation, won a Golden Dot award for Best Vlog of 2006 from the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet and her HamNation video, "Sopranos DC", was voted "Video Of The Year" in the 2007 Weblog Awards.[5]  The series ended in June 2008.[6]  She occasionally posts new videos on her YouTube channel, "mkhammer".

Ham was a host of The Morning Majority (5-9 a.m., Monday-Friday) on WMAL (simulcast on 105.9 FM and 630 AM) in Washington D.C. until March 5, 2012.[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">She has written for The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard, and is a paid contributor on the Fox News Channel. Ham appears regularly on Bill O'Reilly'sFox News Channel program, The O'Reilly Factor, usually with Juan Williams, and she has been a guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. On February 4, 2014, she appeared on The View as a guest co-host.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-view_9-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  Ham describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscal- and security-conscious conservative".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-politico_10-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the ACU Blogger of the Year award.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cpac-2014_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CPAC2014_11-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Ham is married to Jake Brewer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jake_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  Their child Georgia was born August 11, 2013.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Expecting_13-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Georgia_14-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  Her father, Jon Ham, is also a journalist and blogger.