Clarissa Ward
Clarissa Ward (born January 30, 1980 ) is an American TV journalist and foreign correspondent, including war coverage, who worked for CBS , ABC and CNN , among others .
She comes from an English-American family, grew up under privileged circumstances in Manhattan and studied at Yale University (graduation with honors). The decision to become a journalist came after she watched the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in her hometown on television in her senior year at Yale . In 2002 she was an intern at CNN's Moscow office. In 2003 she began her television career at Fox News in New York City, among other things for the field of foreign news (including coordinating news about the 2004 tsunami and the death of Pope John Paul II and Yasser Arafat ). From 2006 she worked for Foxnews as an on-site producer ( field producer ) for reports from Israel (Lebanon War) and Iraq (proceedings against Saddam Hussein), then as a foreign correspondent in Beirut , where she was also with the US armed forces was an embedded journalist in Iraq.
From October 2007 she worked as a foreign correspondent for ABC News in Moscow (including reports on the Soviet intervention in Georgia in 2008) and from October 2010 as an Asia correspondent in Beijing (including the tsunami of 2011 with the nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima and the war in Afghanistan). From October 2011 she worked for CBS as a foreign correspondent with contributions to 60 Minutes . Sometimes she also had a moderator role ("anchor") in the breakfast program. As a correspondent, she reported on the civil war uprising in Syria (although she was in Aleppo in 2012 despite the high dangers posed by snipers and the beginning of the infiltration of the opposition by Islamists ) and the war in Ukraine (2014).
From September 2015 she was a correspondent at CNN based in London , from July 2018 as chief foreign correspondent, succeeding Christiane Amanpour . On August 8, 2016, she spoke to the UN Security Council about the situation in Aleppo during the Syrian civil war, based on ten years of experience in war reporting and as one of the last Western journalists to visit the rebel stronghold in Syria. In February 2019 she reported from the Taliban- controlled regions in Afghanistan (under the protection or camouflage of a Nikab to accompany an Afghan film team) and she was also one of the first to report on the Russian mercenary troops in the Central African Republic . In February 2016, she reported undercover about Syria, which was suffering from the bombing of the Assad regime and its allied Russians, and witnessed a bomb attack on a market with 11 dead ( Undercover in Syria , awarded Peabody, Murrow and ICFJ Awards).
She holds an honorary doctorate in literature from Middlebury College , Vermont. In May 2012 she received the George Foster Peabody Award in New York for reporting on the Syrian Civil War. In 2015 she received the Murrow Award for Foreign Correspondents from Washington State University . She also received another Peabody and Murrow Award and five Emmys (one for a 2008 global food crisis report). She received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and in 2017 the David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club.
In 2016 she married Count Philipp von Bernstorff, with whom she has a child (born 2018). She is fluent in French and Italian, can converse in Russian, Spanish and Arabic and has a basic knowledge of Mandarin.
Web links
- Official website on CNN
- Elisa Britzelmeier: "The Nikab feels like my invisibility cloak" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 16, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elisa Britzelmeier: "The Nikab feels like my invisibility cloak" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 16, 2019
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| SURNAME | Ward, Clarissa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American television journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1980 |