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Date of Birth: 1980 , January-30
Birth Nation: United States
Name Clarissa Ward
Birth Name Clarissa Ward
Nick Name Clarissa
Nationality British
Birth Place/City New York City, New York
Ethnicity White
Profession Journalist
Working For CNN
Net Worth $15 million
Salary $2 million
Eye Color Light-Brown
Hair Color Blonde
Face Color White
Famous for CNN, CBS News
Affair with Unknown
Married Unknown
Education Yale University
Awards Peabody Award
Online Presence Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
TV Show CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes

Quick Timeline of Clarissa Ward

1980 Born in New York
2012 Won George Foster Peabody Award
2003 Joined Fox News
2007 Joined ABC News
2015 Joined CNN
2011 Joined CBS News Network
2014 Won Murrow Award Washington State University
2018 Promoted to Chief International Correspondent

Detail Timeline of Clarissa Ward

January 30 , 1980

Born in New York

Clarissa Ward's family is from London U.K. and New York. She had a wonderful opportunity to attend Yale University. She grew up in Connecticut. She belongs to the traditional family. She must have memorable childhood days.

May 21 , 2012

Won George Foster Peabody Award

Clarissa Ward won the award for her contribution in the journalism field. She is the one of those who dared to conflict prone area of Syria. She has been to Iraq and Afghanistan covering the war stories.

2003

Joined Fox News

Clarissa Ward began her career from Fox News in New York.  She showed the War on Iraq of 2003, Tsunami of Indian Ocean, death Yasir Arfat and Pope John Paul II. She conducted notable interview with Gen. David Petaeus, Iraqi Deputy Prime minister Baram Saleh and Lebanese President Emile Lahound. She had spent significant rime with U.S military in Iraq. 

2007

Joined ABC News

Clarissa Ward was an ABC news correspondent based in Moscow. On assignment in Russia ward covered the Russian Presidential election. She was in Georgia at the time of the Russian intervention into Georgia territory. She was one of the few female journalists.

September 21 , 2015

Joined CNN

Clarissa Ward announced that she will be covering for CNN on 21 September. She has previously worked as an international News correspondent and was based in various locations throughout Europe and Asia. She is very professional and well-liked by her audience.

2011

Joined CBS News Network

As being international journalist, Clarissa Ward has travelled around war prone zone whether it is Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. She covered the Human Rights Issue in China. She brought the case of Ukrainian Crisis to the Western World. 

2014

Won Murrow Award Washington State University

Clarissa Ward had the unique opportunity to win the prestigious Murrow award for her decade-long contribution to journalism. Her news and reporting deals has always been with the Human Rights and Humanitarian needs. She is a celebrity reporter for her courage.

2018

Promoted to Chief International Correspondent

Clarissa Ward had her promotion as she was named the CNN's chief international correspondent. She got the position as the successor of the famed journalist Christiane Amanpour

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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 conflictShe 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

Also, see: How much is Christiane Amanpour net worth? Know about her career and award

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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