Clarissa Ward Biography

Two-time Emmy Award-winning American television journalist Clarissa Ward is currently the London-based Senior International Correspondent for CNN. She has spent over a decade reporting from the front lines around the world. She is a very talented journalist who works at CNN. She has been honored with several of the awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award in 2012, the Murrow Award, the Alfred I.duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, and several more, along with numerous nominations.

Education and early life

Clarissa Ward is a US citizen. She was born on January 30, 1980. Being born and raised in the United States, she has completed her education that way. Since her childhood, Clarissa has been very intelligent and talented. She was brilliant in her studies and dreamed of being successful. Clarissa has chosen not to reveal information about her parents and her early years.

Clarissa Ward attended Yale University graduating with distinction. She can speak seven different languages, including French, Mandarin, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and English. She received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Middlebury College in Vermont in 2013.

Race

Clarissa Ward’s professional career began in 2003 at Fox News as an overnight desk assistant. After a year, she was assigned as a New York-based editor for a year. While at Fox News, she covered various breaking news and hot stories from around the world, including the capture of Saddam Husain, the Indian Ocean tsunami and death of Yasser Arafat, and the death of Pope John Paul II. Later, from 2006, Clarissa started working as a field producer for Fox News Channel. As a field producer, she traveled the Middle East covering events and stories.

Clarissa moved to ABC News in late 2007 as a news correspondent. She used to report to the station from Moscow for two years and was relocated to Beijing for two years. She covered the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the Russian presidential election, and many others. Clarissa then moved to CBS News in 2011 as the network’s foreign news correspondent. She used to contribute to the network show ’60 Minutes’ and also served as a host on CBS This Morning. She covered the many foreign news stories, including the Syrian uprising, the US-China negotiations, the riots in Egypt, and many other hot and breaking news stories.

Clarissa started working for CNN in September 2015 and began reporting for all of CNN’s London-based platforms. Starting with CNN, she reported on the Kurdish YPG driving out ISIS in the northern part of Syria. She covered the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris, Brussels, and Nice. In February 2016, Clarissa went undercover to rebel-held areas in Syria, where almost no journalists visited her for more than a year. In less than 24 hours, Clarrisa’s team witnessed an airstrike that the team fired exclusively and can be found on CNN.com/Syria.

Personal life

Blonde beauty Clarissa Ward is a popular name in media journalism. She could have attracted many men and she could have been in several relationships as well. Her past/present relationship is in complete shadow. Her current relationship status is not revealed, so it is difficult to mention if she is married or divorced or if she is currently dating. Clarissa Ward has always been reluctant to reveal her privacy and she has never talked about it with any means and everyone has respected her virtue. So far no rumors or controversies about her have been heard or read.

Net worth

Clarissa Ward is reported to receive around $200,000 as her annual salary from CNN. The exact net worth of her has not been revealed by any source in any way, but looking at the pay scale of her, one can believe that her net worth is in the millions of dollars.