On the Front Lines – War Correspondent Clarissa Ward’s Story

Clarissa Ward talks about the old-boy network in war correspondence and the feeling that war is a theatre for men. But there are now a lot more women doing combat coverage. She is a senior international correspondent based in CNN’s London Bureau. Ward has reported for more than a decade from the front lines of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other middle eastern countries. Ward has won numerous awards for her reporting including the George Foster Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, four Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award for distinguished journalism, as well as honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association. Read More…