Clarissa Ward
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Ward receiving the Peabody Award in 2012
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| Born | Clarissa Ward January 30, 1980 New York, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Notable credit(s) | CBS News |
Clarissa Ward (born January 30, 1980) is an American television journalist who is currently a foreign correspondent for CNN.[1] She was formerly with CBS News, based in London. Before her CBS News position, Ward was a Moscow-based news correspondent for ABC News program.[2]
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Early life
Ward's family is from London, U.K. and New York[3]
Ward graduated from Yale University and holds an honorary doctor of letters degree from Middlebury College.[2]
Career
Early career
Ward began her career as an overnight desk assistant at Fox News in 2003. From 2004 to 2005, Ward was an assignment editor for Fox News in New York. She worked on the international desk coordinating coverage for stories such as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Indian Ocean tsunami and the deaths of Yasir Arafat and Pope John Paul II. In 2006, Ward worked as a field producer for Fox News Channel. In that role she produced coverage of events throughout the Middle East, including the Israeli-Lebanese war, the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and subsequent military action into Gaza, the trial of Saddam Hussein and the referendum on the Iraqi constitution. Prior to October 2007, Ward was based in Beirut and worked as a correspondent for Fox News Channel in the Middle East. She covered major events in the region, including the execution of Saddam Hussein, the Baghdad surge, the Beirut Arab University riots and the Ain al Alaq bus bombings. She conducted interviews with notable figures such as Gen. David Petraeus, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud. She also spent time embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq, most notably in the restive city of Baqubah.[3]
ABC News
From October 2007 to October 2010, Ward was an ABC News correspondent based in Moscow. She reported from Russia for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms, including "World News with Charles Gibson", "Nightline" and "Good Morning America", as well as ABC News Radio, ABC News Now. On assignment in Russia Ward covered the Russian Presidential elections. She was in Georgia at the time of the Russian intervention into Georgia territory. Ward was transferred to Beijing to serve as the ABC News Asian Correspondent, where she covered the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. She has also covered the war in Afghanistan.[2]
CBS News
Ward's CBS career started as the network's foreign news correspondent in October 2011. She is a contributor for 60 Minutes and has served as a fill-in anchor on CBS This Morning since January 2014.[4]
She has covered many major foreign news stories including the Syrian Uprising, Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng's stay at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and subsequent United States - China negotiations, and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
In her first 60 Minutes report in 2012, Ward and her team braved sniper-fire and aerial bombardments in the Syrian city of Aleppo to deliver one of the first reports examining the growth of Islamic extremism within the opposition. In July 2013, Ward reported on the unrest in Egypt, filming in the same area where CBS correspondent Lara Logan had been sexually assaulted a few years prior. In October 2014, Ward returned to Syria undercover to interview two Western jihadis - a young American man and a former Dutch soldier - about their paths to radicalism.
CNN
On 21 September 2015 CNN announced that Ward was joining the network and reporting for all of CNN's platforms. She will remain based in London.
Awards
Ward received a George Foster Peabody Award on May 21, 2012, in New York for her independent journalistic coverage inside Syria during the Syrian uprising.[5][6] In October 2014, Washington State University announced that Ward would receive the 2015 Murrow Award for International Reporting in April 2015.[7] She has also received two Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, and honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.[2]
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External links
- Clarissa Ward Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
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