Clarissa Ward is one of the world’s most daring journalists and the chief international correspondent for CNN. She was the only Western correspondent in Kabul after the Taliban’s return and the sole journalist who recently managed to report from the Gaza Strip. Clarissa participated in the investigation into Navalny’s poisoning and was the first to knock on the door of one of his poisoners. She has reported from the front lines of wars in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine.
In this interview, Clarissa discusses the challenges of being a journalist in today’s fractured world: how to tell the truth when many believe it doesn’t exist, how Kabul has become safer than Moscow, why people distrust liberal media, why journalists are still essential despite the rise of bloggers and activists, which war of the past two decades has been the hardest to cover, whether journalists should strive for objectivity, and how the war in Ukraine might change if Trump wins the election.
"Moscow is less safe than Kabul"