Lots of excitement and buzz here today because we just issued the following release about Mary Katharine Ham joining the staff as online editor for the new web site. I first met Mary Katharine when I was at The Heritage Foundation and she was editor of a couple of Heritage publications. I knew then she was headed for great things and her achievements in the years since have certainly borne that prediction out.
Here’s the text of our release:
Townhall.com managing editor and regular Fox News guest Mary Katharine Ham is joining The Washington Examiner as online editor for the publication’s forthcoming new web site, dcexaminer.com, the newspaper announced today.
As online editor of dcexaminer.com, Ham will be responsible for overall management of the site’s news and editorial content and staff, as well as working with Examiner and outside resources on creative development of new features and functionality. She will work from the Examiner’s downtown
Washington
D.C.
“We are especially excited and proud to have Mary Katharine Ham join The Washington Examiner because she among the most respected young stars of online journalism and is also well-known to cable television and talk radio audiences through her regular appearances on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ onFox News,” said Vivienne Sosnowski, editorial director of Clarity Media, which publishes The Washington Examiner, The Baltimore Examiner and The San Francisco Examiner, as well as the Examiner.com web site.
“Her hiring demonstrates again our commitment to building a great news and information company that excels in three channels, including newspapers, online and video,” Sosnowski said.
Prior to joining Townhall.com as an editor in 2005, Ham was an online editor for The Heritage Foundation think tank. Before that, she was a sports reporter and features writer for a
North Carolina
She is a 2002 graduate of the
Raleigh
NC
