[2006] Mary Katharine Ham is an editor and blogger with background in both the mainstream media and conservative politics. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2002 with a degree in Newspaper Journalism. She was a sports and features reporter and copy editor at a North Carolina newspaper, where she won two North Carolina Press Association awards, for features and sports columns. After that, she headed to The Heritage Foundation as the editor of The Insider magazine and InsiderOnline.org. She served as a columnist and associate editor of Townhall.com before joining Salem Communications in 2005. While with Salem, she has blogged at HughHewitt.com, and now serves as Managing Editor of Townhall.com.