Clarissa Ward is an American television journalist best known for working with news channels like Fox, ABC, CNN, and CBS.
Clarissa Ward's early life
Clarissa Ward was born on 30 January 1980 in New York City, USA. Other than working as a journalist, the world knows very little about her personal life. Clarissa is a Yale University graduate.
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The American reporter belongs to the white ethnicity from European heritage. Her family is from London and New York and the rest of the information about her life growing up as well as information on her parents and siblings are not outed by her in the media.
Clarissa Ward's career
Ward began her career at Fox New in 2003. She is a brave journalist who has covered the story of Saddam Hussein, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and the deaths of Yasser Arafat. Clarissa is also best known for her War story coverage, U.S military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Her continuous effort in the field of journalism has made her a household name in American media.
From 2007 to 2010, Clarissa worked for ABC News, stationed in Moscow, and covered the story of the Russian presidential election. One of her most memorable works includes coverage of the Georgia and Russia conflict. She was in Georgia when Russia occupied Georgian territory.
Ward has traveled to many parts of the world in course of her journalism work. She was stationed in China as the news correspondent for ABC News Asia. She covered the story of the 2011 nature calamities Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
In 2011, Ward joined CBS News, where she covered the Syrian Uprising, Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng's stay at the U.S Embassy in Beijing, and subsequent United States-China negotiation and Ukrainian revolution.
She went to Syria, for taking an interview with two Western Jihadists. In 2015, she changed her base to London, started to cover for CNN.
In July 2018, Ward had her promotion as she was named CNN's chief international correspondent. She got the position as the successor of the famed journalist Christiane Amanpour.
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Clarissa Ward's personal life
Coming towards her personal life, Ward is single and is not married to anyone so far. As she is a very busy Journalist, and an introverted person, she has mastered the art of keeping her personal life out of the media radar.
Clarissa Ward is attractive and tall. She is an active user of Facebook and Twitter respectively.
Clarissa Ward's net worth
As Ward is active in the field of journalism for 13 years, she has a good salary which is reported to be around $2 million per annum.
As of 2018, she has managed to keep her net worth a secret, but we estimate it to be more than $15 million looking at other co-workers in Fox and CNN at the same position.
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