Mary Katharine Ham


Mary Katharine Ham is an American 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 on WMAL in Washington, D.C., until March 5, 2012.
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.
Ham remarried on March 7th, 2020, to a man "completely off the social media grid."

Internet meme

, a Swedish YouTuber, uploaded episodes called "Pew News," of which he would pretend to be fictional news host. One of these fictional characters was named "Mary Katherine Ham," who later killed another fictional news host. This caught the attention of the real Mary Katharine Ham after a large number of people tweeted her about the incident.

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