Clarissa Ward with Michael Barbaro: On All Fronts

Join CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward for a discussion of her book On All Fronts. Clarrisa is in conversation with "The Daily" host Michael Barbaro. Purchase the book: https://www.strandbooks.com/search-re...

The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan, Ward, who speaks seven languages, has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented the violent remaking of the world at close range. With her deep empathy, Ward finds a way to tell the hardest stories. On All Fronts is the riveting account of Ward’s singular career and of journalism in this age of extremism.

Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world. She has won five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism, honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association, the 2016 David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists. She graduated with distinction from Yale University, and in 2013 received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Middlebury College in Vermont. She lives in London.

Michael Barbaro is the managing editor and host of “The Daily,” a five-day-a-week audio show from The New York Times. Since its launch, in February of 2017, the show has built an audience of more than three million listeners a day; become the most-downloaded new show on Apple Podcasts; won a DuPont-Columbia University Award for audio excellence; and been named a top podcast of the year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, Esquire, Adweek, The New Yorker and New York Magazine, which called it “a triumph, plain and simple.” As host, Barbaro has been named to the Recode 100, Crain’s 40 Under 40, and People Magazine’s list of Sexiest Men Alive. He joined The Times in 2005 from The Washington Post, where he began in 2002 as a reporter covering the biotechnology industry. Barbaro graduated from Yale in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in history.

Recorded September 8, 2020