Clarissa Ward Biography
Clarissa Ward is a British- American journalist, she is the chief international correspondent for CNN. She was named 2019 Correspondent of the Year by the Gracies, Ward is the author of ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’, it is a memoir that details her singular career as a conflict reporter and how she has documented the violent remaking of the world from close range.
Clarissa Ward Education
Ward graduated from Yale University and received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Middlebury College in Vermont in 2013.
Clarissa Ward CNN
Ward, is CNN’s multi-award-winning chief international reporter headquartered in London, is a multi-award-winning journalist. She has been reporting from the front lines all around the world for more than 15 years, from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Yemen to Ukraine and Georgia during the Russian intervention in 2008.
She is the author of ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’, a book that describes her singular career as a war reporter and how she has documented the violent reshaping of the globe from close range. Ward was named 2019 Correspondent of the Year by the Gracies.
She’s also the anchor of CNN Audio’s Tug of War, a limited-season podcast. Ward covered the fall of Kabul in the weeks running up to August 2021, staying in the country for several days after the Taliban gained control of the capital. She obtained unique access to an Afghan base in Kandahar only days before the Taliban captured it, and she also interviewed the Taliban when they seized a former US military facility in Ghazni province.
Ward, senior field producer Brent Swails, and photojournalists William Bonnett and Scott McWhinnie received the George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting in 2021 for their coverage of Afghanistan’s fall.
Ward and her colleagues were the first international journalists allowed into Myanmar nearly two months after the country’s military revolution in February 2021. She questioned Myanmar’s military junta about the harsh suppression of protestors while she was there, reporting on the sweeping military crackdown.
Ward also traveled to Geneva for President Biden’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and covered the G7 conference in England, where she met British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as part of CNN’s coverage of Joe Biden’s first abroad trip as president.
Ward examined the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in late 2020, obtaining new evidence that identified Russian security services who followed Navalny on more than 30 flights over three years.
Ward also looked into Russian trolls operating in Ghana and Nigeria to inflame racial tensions and cause social instability in the United States. She traveled to one of the operation’s offices in Ghana for this months-long investigation, where she interviewed one of the trolls and tracked down the operation’s leader, a Ghanaian living in Russia. The story ‘Russia’s Secret Influence Campaigns’ was a nominee for the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 2021.
She has also participated to CNN’s breaking news coverage of Russia-Ukraine tensions, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the US-Iran conflict in early 2020, following the story from the United States, Iraq , and Ukraine.
Ward explored Russia’s employment of mercenaries for CNN in a two-part story titled “Putin’s Private Army” in 2019. Ward got the first on-camera interview with a former fighter for Wagner, Russia’s most notorious private military contractor, for this months-long, Emmy Award-winning investigation.
She went to the Central African Republic to investigate the growing presence of Russian mercenaries on the continent. Ward and her team were followed and intimidated by a car full of Russians after visiting a diamond mine with ties to a Russian tycoon. Following the publication of their stories, they were targeted by a Russian media propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting their work.
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Clarissa Ward Age
Ward is 42 years old as of 2021. She was born on January 31, 1980, in London.
Clarissa Ward Height
Ward stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Clarissa Ward Family
Ward was born in London to a British father and American mother Rooney and Donna Ward.
Clarissa Ward Husband
Ward is married to Philipp von Bernstorff, a Fund Manager. The couple has two children together.
Clarissa Ward Baby
Ward became a mother in 2018 with the arrival of her son Ezra Albrecht Nikolas Nour von Bernstorff. The couple’s second child, son Caspar Hugo.
Clarissa Ward Baby
Ward welcomed her baby Ezra Albrecht Nikolas Nour von Bernstorff into the world in 2018. Caspar Hugo, the couple’s second child.
Clarissa Ward Injury
Clarissa Ward’s first “true brush with death” as a young foreign correspondent in Baghdad covering the Iraq War in 2005 didn’t terrify her the way she expected.
When two suicide bombers hit her facility, Ward, who was embedded with the US troops and documenting the battle for Fox News Channel, remarked, “It’s a really bizarre experience because it’s absolutely unemotional.”
“I had always assumed that if you’re in a serious scenario where you think you’re going to die, you’d be crying or thinking about your parents or loved ones,” she told Matt Galloway of The Current.
Instead, she recalls being in “an almost zombie state of mind, when all you want to do is collect your run bag and get into the race.”