Mary Katharine Ham is a host of The Morning Majority (5-9 a.m., Monday-Friday) on 630 WMAL in Washington D.C.. She currently writes for The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

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and The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard

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. She also is a political commentator on the Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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.

Her video blog series, "HamNation", won a Golden Dot award for Best Vlog of 2006 from the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet

Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet

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 and her HamNation video, "Sopranos DC", was voted "Video Of The Year" in the 2007 Weblog Awards.
The series ended in June 2008.
She occasionally posts new videos on her YouTube channel, "mkhammer".

Ham appears regularly on Bill O'Reilly's

Bill O'Reilly (commentator)

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 Fox News program, The O'Reilly Factor

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, usually with Juan Williams

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, and she has been a guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld

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. She describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscal- and security-conscious conservative".

Early life and career

Ham graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in Journalism

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 from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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 at the University of Georgia

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. She has written for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com

Townhall.com

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 (where she was a columnist

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 and managing editor

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) and The Washington Examiner.

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

External links

• Archived 'HamNation' videos at Townhall.com
  Townhall.com
  Townhall.com is a web-based publication primarily dedicated to conservative United States politics. It was previously operated by the Heritage Foundation, but is now owned and operated by Salem Communications...
  
  
• Archived columns at Townhall.com
  Townhall.com
  Townhall.com is a web-based publication primarily dedicated to conservative United States politics. It was previously operated by the Heritage Foundation, but is now owned and operated by Salem Communications...
  
  
• Archived blog at Townhall.com
  Townhall.com
  Townhall.com is a web-based publication primarily dedicated to conservative United States politics. It was previously operated by the Heritage Foundation, but is now owned and operated by Salem Communications...
  
  
• http://dailycaller.com/author/mham/ on The Daily Caller
  The Daily Caller
  The Daily Caller is a news website based in Washington, D.C., United States, with a focus on politics, original reporting and breaking news, founded by journalist and political pundit Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney...