Presenter Recommendation: Clarissa Ward's Tour Around the World

CNN's chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward shares her top picks for our toolkit feature–ways to learn more and stay connected to the conversation–three news sources to read, three journalists to follow, and three news stories to watch for.

NEWS SOURCES TO READ

1) CNN (obviously)

2) The Economist

3) UnHerd (for a different perspective)

JOURNALISTS TO FOLLOW

1) Gregg Carlstrom (Economist Middle East reporter with an amazing Twitter feed)

2) Yashar Ali (New York Magazine and Huffington Post contributor)

3) Bellingcat (collective for open source investigation)

CURRENT EVENTS TO WATCH FOR

1) Lebanon — Will the incompetence exposed by the horrific Beirut blast finally bring desperately needed political reforms to this wonderful country?

2) Russia — If you think election meddling is so 2016, think again.

3) China — Could we be looking at the next Cold War and are there any possible winners in that war?

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, and many more accolades. 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.

Read Ward's new book On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

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