Quick Facts
| Intro | American journalist |
| Is | Journalist |
| From | United States of America |
| Field | Journalism |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 5 April 1980, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, U.S.A. |
| Age | 43 years |
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Biography
Mary Katharine Ham (born April 5, 1980) is an American journalist and center-right journalist. She is a contributing editor for Townhall Magazine, a senior writer at The Federalist, and a CNN contributor.
She was previously a Fox News contributor and an editor-at-large for Hot Air.
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.
Personal life
Ham was married to Jacob Brewer, a White House aide. 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 September 19, 2015. Ham gave birth to their second child, a girl, in late 2015.
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
