Mary Katharine Ham (born April 5, 1980) is an American journalist and conservative commentator. She is editor at large of Hot Air, a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine, senior writer at The Federalist and a CNN contributor. At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the ACU Blogger of the Year award. She was previously a Fox News Channel contributor.
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Career
Ham wrote for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com where she was a columnist and managing editor, and The Washington Examiner. Her video 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. The series ended in June 2008.
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.
On February 4, 2014, she appeared on The View as a guest co-host. Ham describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscal- and security-conscious conservative".
At CPAC 2014, she was presented with the ACU Blogger of the Year award.
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Personal life
Ham was married to Jacob "Jake" Brewer, a White House aide and co-founder of the immigration activism group Define American. The couple married in 2011; two years later, Ham gave birth to their first child, a girl. Brewer died from serious injuries sustained in a bicycle accident on 19 September 2015, Ham gave birth to their second child, a girl, in late 2015.
In 2011 she ran the Marine Corps Marathon in 4:22:14 with her husband. In 2016 while again running the MCM on an unseasonably warm day (4:44:10), she raised over $35,000 for one of her late husband's favorite charities "The Travis Manion Foundation", which benefits family members of American troops who died in war.
Her father, Jon Ham, is also a journalist and blogger.
Book
- End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun) Hardcover with Guy Benson 2015
References
External links
- Official website
- Mary Katharine Ham on The Federalist
- Mary Katharine Ham on Hot Air.com
- Archived columns at Townhall.com
- Mary Katharine Ham on The Daily Caller
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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