Mary Katharine Ham Net Worth 2025

Mary Katharine Ham
Ham in 2016
Born	(1980-04-05) April 5, 1980 (age 45)
Alma mater	University of Georgia
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse(s)	Jake Brewer ​ ​ (m. 2011; died 2015)​ Steve ​ (m. 2020)​
Children	4

Mary Katharine Ham (born April 5, 1980) is an American journalist and political commentator. She has worked as a contributing editor for Townhall and Hot Air, written for The Federalist, and served as a CNN contributor. In 2024, she rejoined Fox News as a contributor and also writes columns for the sports-and-commentary site OutKick.^[1][2]

Ham wrote for the Richmond County Daily Journal, Townhall.com where she was a columnist and managing editor, and The Washington Examiner.^[3] 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.^[4] The series ended in June 2008.^[5]

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.^[6]

She took part in ABC News’ Republican primary debate in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on February 6, 2016, posing questions alongside moderators David Muir and Martha Raddatz and WMUR’s Josh McElveen.^[7][8]

At the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference, she was presented with the American Conservative Union Blogger of the Year award.^[9][10]

In October 2022, Ham wrote that she had been quietly suspended by CNN for about seven months; media coverage at the time summarized her account, which followed criticism she had made of former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin’s Zoom incident. She subsequently left the network.^[11][12]

In June of 2024 she joined Fox News as a contributor. She also works for Fox's sports and commentary site, OutKick.^[13]

Ham co-hosts the news-and-culture podcast Getting Hammered with journalist Vic Matus, distributed by Nebulous; the show has released hundreds of episodes since 2021.^[14][15]

Ham was married to Jake Brewer, a White House aide.^[16] The couple married in 2011; two years later, Ham gave birth to their first child, a girl.^[17] Brewer died from serious injuries sustained in a bicycle accident on September 19, 2015, while Ham was in her third trimester of pregnancy with their second baby.^[18] Ham gave birth to their second child, a girl, in late 2015.^[19]

She remarried on March 7, 2020,^[20] to a man "who has no social media presence."^[21] Ham has three daughters and a son.^[22][23]

Ham describes her political leaning as "primarily fiscal- and security-conscious conservative."^[24]

• Ham, Mary Katharine; Guy Benson (2015). End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun). Crown Forum (Random House). ISBN 978-0-553-44775-0.^[25][26]

• Official website
• Appearances on C-SPAN