Clarissa Ward

Clarissa Ward

Clarissa Ward is an American television journalist who is currently chief international correspondent for CNN. She was formerly with CBS News, based in London. Ward’s family is from London, U. K. and New York City. She is married to German Count Philipp von Bernstorff, with whom she has one child.

About Clarissa Ward in brief

Summary Clarissa WardClarissa Ward is an American television journalist who is currently chief international correspondent for CNN. She was formerly with CBS News, based in London. Before her CBS News position, Ward was a Moscow-based news correspondent for ABC News programs. Ward’s family is from London, U. K. and New York City. She graduated from Yale University and holds an honorary doctor of letters degree from Middlebury College. Ward is married to German Count Philipp von Bernstorff, with whom she has one child. She has also received seven Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. du-Columbia Award for International Reporting in April 2015, and a George Peabody Award in May 2012.

In July 2018, CNN named Ward its chiefinternational correspondent, succeeding Christiane Amanpour in the role. In 2019, she became one of the first Western reporters to report on the life in the Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan. In December 2020, in a joint investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat in co-operation with CNN and der Spiegel, she reported how Russian Federal Security Service members stalked Alexei Navalny for years and just before his poisoning in August 2020.