Clarissa Ward

Clarissa Ward

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Clarissa Ward was named CBS News Foreign Correspondent in October 2011. She will report for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including occasionally for "60 Minutes."

Most recently, Ward was the Asia Correspondent for ABC News, based in Beijing. She was one of the first network correspondents to report directly from the hardest hit areas after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Ward also spent time in Afghanistan embedded with the Marines in dangerous Helmand Province.

Previously, she served as ABC News' Moscow Correspondent, covering the 2007 Russian presidential elections and reporting from inside Georgia during the Russian incursion. In 2008 her reporting on the global food crisis, part of a series of reports on "World News with Charles Gibson," received an Emmy Award for Business & Financial Reporting.

Before joining ABC News, Ward was a correspondent for FOX News Channel, working out of Beirut and Baghdad, providing reports on major events in the region, most prominently the execution of Saddam Hussein. She also interviewed several major figures, including General David Petraeus and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, and spent time embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq.

Ward graduated from Yale University with distinction. She grew up between the U.S. and U.K. and is fluent in French and Italian and has a command of Mandarin, Arabic, Russian and Spanish.

[TomHastie]

Ms Ward, Your presence on CBS reaffirms my opinion that the network is serious about news. I doubt there are many other correspondents who can work the Mid East without an interpreter.

Thomas Hastie
Dayton OH

[eaglerockeagle]

Hello? It's a CIVIL WAR lady. Leave it alone. 60,000 deaths? Bad. 750,000 deaths? Much worse. That's how many people died in the American civil war.

[GJonesSimmons]

Ms. Ward, Your Middle East reporting has been excellent and brave. My husband and I have become fans of your informative and educational news reports from the edge of safety (sorry, we used to call you Twitchy). Your delivery is easy to understand and shows the danger surrounding you and the local citizens. You gain access to more daring locations and report on risky situations more extensively than I've ever seen.
Your reports from Syria deserve some kind of news award. You are very good and we enjoy seeing your intelligent persona on CBS and "in our home."
Thank you, from the West Coast!

[brentotter]

Clarissa,
I just wanted to say how much I respect you efforts to have free journalism from restricted societies. As a soldier who served many years in our armed forces protecting our civil rights, I admire your efforts to let the world see what you have experienced in oppressive nations.

Much respect and regards,

Brent Otter, MA
SFC, USA

[arabella12]

i am so proud of my cousine which is clarissa ward

[Hobbhouse]

Congratulations to Ms. Ward for being recognized with the Peabody Award that she earned. Glad she made it home most of all.

[Hobbhouse]

Congratulations to Ms. Ward for being recognized with the Peabody Award that she earned. Glad she made it home most of all.

[lsieu]

Why is it that today's journalist have no idea what to avoid saying when bring onsite stories from a war front? Locations are reasonably known; it's not that. But quantity and specific names seem to be very very wrong since these folks are in an active conflict. What exactly was Ms. Ward attempting to achieve with her story and was the mention of such intel and was it worth the added risk she just subjected these people to with her less than thoughtful coverage? Lose lips sink ships, Miss Ward.