Mary Katharine Ham

Mary Katharine Ham
Born April 5, 1980 (1980-04-05) (age 31)
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Occupation Journalist

Mary Katharine Ham (born April 5, 1980 in Montgomery, Alabama) is a host of The Morning Majority (5-9 a.m., Monday-Friday) on WMAL (simulcast on 105.9 FM and 620 AM) in Washington D.C.. [1] She currently writes for The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard. She also is a political commentator on the Fox News Channel.

Her video blog series, "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.[2] The series ended in June 2008.[3] She occasionally posts new videos on her YouTube channel, "mkhammer".

Ham appears regularly on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News 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. She describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscal- and security-conscious conservative".[4]

Early life and career

Ham graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She has written for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com (where she was a columnist and managing editor) and The Washington Examiner.[5]

Her father, Jon Ham, is also a journalist and blogger.[6]

References

  1. ^ http://630wmal.com/blog.asp?id=40282
  2. ^ Kevin Aylward (November 11, 2007). "Video Of The Year". The 2007 Weblog Awards. http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/video-of-the-year-1.php. 
  3. ^ Mary Katharine Ham (June 6, 2008). "Last HamNation: Obama on Your Shoulder!". Townhall.com. http://townhall.com/blog/g/e4c35d84-a48f-4fb7-b400-d9abd7de7f56. 
  4. ^ Ryan Grim (June 3, 2007). ""BlogJam: Hammin' it up". The Politico. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4287.html. 
  5. ^ "Ham joins Examiner staff as Web site editor". The Washington Examiner. May 24, 2008. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/ham_joins_examiner_staff_as_web_site_editor2008-05-24T07_00_00.html. Retrieved 2009-09-28. 
  6. ^ "Carolina Journal Print Columnists - Jon Ham". http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjcolumnists/display_author.html?id=191. 

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