Clarissa Ward stature, age, financial worth, wiki, spouse, biography.
Clarissa Ward is a broadcast journalist from the United States. She is currently stationed in London as CNN’s primary international correspondent. She previously served at CBS News in London and as a Moscow-based news reporter for ABC News.
Clarissa Ward: Overview
| Notable As | Clarissa Ward |
| Profession | Journalist |
| Age | 41 years old |
| Astral Sign | Aquarius |
| Born | 30 January 1980 |
| Birthday | 30 January |
| Place of Birth | New York, NY |
| Citizenship | NY |
Clarissa Ward: Biography
Clarissa Ward is an American media figure acting as the chief global correspondent for CNN. She once operated as a foreign news reporter for CBS News in London and as a Moscow-based correspondent for ABC News.
Clarissa Ward: Age
Ward was born on 30 January 1980 in New York, United States.
Clarissa Ward: Stature
Clarissa reaches a height of 5 feet 11 inches.
Clarissa Ward: Education
Ward graduated with honors from Yale University and, in 2013, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Middlebury College in Vermont.
Clarissa Ward: Parents
Clarissa is the offspring of Rodney Ward and Donna Ward. Her father is an investment banker who worked in Hong Kong when she was 14. Her mother is an interior designer, and their prior residence on South Ocean Boulevard received the Schuler Award from the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach.
Clarissa Ward: Spouse
Ward is united in marriage to Philipp von Bernstorff, a German Count whom she encountered at a dinner gathering in Moscow in 2007. It was love at first glance, and the couple commenced dating before exchanging vows in November 2016 in London. Instead of a lavish celebration, the duo preferred a modest ceremony at Chelsea Old Town Hall, followed by lunch at their Notting Hill residence with just 46 attendees. Ward purchased her wedding gown merely six days prior (at a Harvey Nichols department store). She initially intended to handle her own hair and makeup—until her CNN makeup artist intervened.
Clarissa Ward: Offspring
Clarissa and her spouse share two children: Ezra Albrecht Nikolas Nour, born on 2 March 2018, and Caspar Hugo Augustus Idris Von Bernstorff, who arrived on June 29, 2020.
Clarissa Ward: CNN
Clarissa Ward is CNN’s primary global correspondent located in London. She joined the network in 2015. Here, she has reported on significant events, investigating Russian trolls operating in Ghana and Nigeria to provoke racial discord and incite social disturbances in the US. She traveled to one of the operation’s bases in Ghana, where she interviewed one of the trolls and traced the individual directing the operation, a Ghanaian residing in Russia.
She has also participated in CNN’s rapid news coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak, the tension between the US and Iran earlier this year, tracking the story from the US, Iraq—including the site of an Iranian missile strike—and Ukraine with every crucial development. When Turkey initiated a military operation targeting America’s Kurdish partners in northern Syria last fall, Ward reported from the ground in Syria, documenting the turmoil as civilians fled their abodes amid military assaults. Her coverage of the Turkish advance contributed to the network winning an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Breaking News Coverage category this year.
In 2019, Ward investigated Russia’s deployment of mercenaries in a two-part series for CNN, ‘Putin’s Private Army.’ For this extensive, Emmy Award-winning inquiry, Ward secured the first on-camera interview with a former fighter for Wagner—Russia’s most infamous private military contractor. She traveled to the Central African Republic to examine the expanding Russian mercenary presence on the continent. After visiting a diamond mine linked to a Russian oligarch, Ward and her team were trailed and threatened by a vehicle full of Russians. Following their reports’ release, they became targets of a Russian media propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting their work.
This was preceded by Ward obtaining unprecedented access to Taliban-controlled regions in Afghanistan for an exclusive report, ’36 Hours with the Taliban.’ Ward and CNN field producer Salma Abdelaziz spent time at a local madrasa, where numerous children—both boys and girls—studied their Qurans, and at a Taliban-run clinic in the village of Pashma Qala.
In 2018, she extensively reported on the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, even acquiring exclusive footage showing a Saudi operative impersonating Khashoggi in a bid to conceal the murder. That report on Khashoggi’s body double was honored with a Golden Nymph from the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 2019. CNN’s overall coverage of Khashoggi’s assassination was acclaimed with a prestigious 2020 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.
Ward also led ‘Shadow Over Europe,’ a CNN investigation into the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in 2018, journeying to Poland, Germany, and France to observe how these nations were addressing the surge in anti-Semitic incidents and stereotypes. ‘Shadow Over Europe’ was honored with a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award in the News Series category for Television Networks.
Clarissa Ward: Fox News
Prior to her tenure at CNN, Ward also worked for Fox News, initially as an overnight desk assistant in 2003 before becoming an assignment editor for the network. Here, she coordinated coverage on the international desk for events such as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and the deaths of Yasir Arafat and Pope John Paul II. In 2006, Ward functioned as a field producer for Fox News. She generated coverage of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, the abduction of Gilad Shalit, and the consequential Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip, the trial of Saddam Hussein, and the 2005 Iraqi constitutional referendum.
She was also stationed in Beirut and acted as a correspondent who reported on the execution of Saddam Hussein, the troop surge in the Iraq War in 2007, the Beirut Arab University riots, and the 2007 Bikfaya bombings. She interviewed notable personalities such as Gen. David Petraeus, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud. Additionally, she spent time embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq, notably in Baqubah.
Before joining CNN and Fox News, Ward served as an ABC News correspondent in Moscow. She covered news from Russia for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms, including World News with Charles Gibson, Nightline, and Good Morning America, ABC News Radio, and ABC News Now. During her time in Russia, Ward reported on the Russian Presidential elections. She was present in Georgia during the Russian intervention into Georgian territory. Ward was subsequently relocated to Beijing to act as the ABC News Asian Correspondent, covering the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. She has also reported on the conflict in Afghanistan.
Ward was previously a CBS News foreign news correspondent. Here, she contributed to 60 Minutes and filled in as an anchor on CBS This Morning. She reported on numerous international stories, including the Syrian Uprising, Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng’s stay at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, the ensuing negotiations between the United States and China, and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
Clarissa Ward: Book
Ward authored ‘On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist’ (Penguin Press), a recent memoir that chronicles her unique journey as a conflict reporter and how she has captured the violent transformation of the world from close proximity.
Clarissa Ward: Honors
Ward was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award on May 21, 2012, in New York City for her journalistic coverage within Syria during the Syrian uprising. In October 2014, Washington State University announced that Ward would be honored with the 2015 Murrow Award for International Reporting in April 2015. She has been the recipient of two Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, and accolades from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association. She was named 2019 Reporter/Correspondent of the Year by the Gracies.
Clarissa Ward: Income
Ward receives an annual salary of $200,000.
Clarissa Ward: Financial Worth
She has an estimated wealth of $1 million.
