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 in . 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 in . She is a brave journalist who has covered the story of Saddam Hussein, the 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 to , 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 . 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 . She covered the story of the 2011 nature calamities and in Japan.

In , Ward joined , where she covered the , 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 , she changed her base to London, started to cover for .

In , 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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