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Clarissa Ward - Tales from the Front (Virtual-only event)

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  Tales from the Front

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Clarissa Ward

CNN’s multi-award-winning chief international correspondent. She holds 12 Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and a George Polk Award. She authored On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist, chronicling her career as a conflict reporter.


 

Wednesday, February 19, 2025
1:00- 2:00pm

Virtual only via Zoom


About the Topic
How can we engage in discussions of complex political events when our world is so polarized? How can we make informed decisions when we are bombarded with varying versions of “facts.”

About the Speaker
Clarissa Ward is CNN’s multi-award winning chief international correspondent based in London. She has also reported for ABC, CBS and Fox News. Ms. Ward will discuss her front-line experiences reporting from war-ravaged locations, including Syria, Ukraine, and Afghanistan and the difficulties and dangers of providing factual frontline coverage in the age of social media.

Ms. Ward reported from Syria on the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and on the Israel-Hamas war from both Israel and Gaza, where she and her team became the only Western journalists to gain access to Gaza without the IDF. She spent more than five months in Ukraine following Russia's full-scale invasion. She reported extensively from Afghanistan on life under Taliban control. In 2020, Ward teamed up with online investigative outlet Bellingcat to unveil the team of Russian FSB operatives responsible for poisoning opposition leader, Alexey Navalny. She is the last international journalist to interview Navalny in person.

Ms. Ward is the recipient of multiple journalism recognitions including 12 Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a George Polk Award, and the National Press Club’s most esteemed prize, the Fourth Estate Award. She is the author of On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist (Penguin Press, 2020), a memoir that details her singular career as a conflict reporter and how she has documented the violent remaking of the world from close range. Ms. Ward is also the original host of the award-winning limited series podcast from CNN Audio, Tug of War.

Ms. Ward received her BA with distinction from Yale University and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Middlebury College in 2013. She speaks fluent French and Italian; conversational Russian, Arabic and Spanish; as well as basic Mandarin.

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Seward & Kissel
A leading New York-based international law firm assisting the financial industry and business clients with transactions, raising capital and related disputes.

Maryann Sudo

OTR Board of Governors
 
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM

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