Polk Award Winners: Clarissa Ward

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Clarissa Ward is the chief international correspondent for CNN. Along with field producer Brent Swails and photojournalists William Bonnett and Scott McWhinnie, Ward won the 2022 George Polk Award for her real-time coverage of the rapid rise of the Taliban as U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan last summer. “I used to come back from war zones and feel completely disconnected from my life—disconnected from my friends, from my family. I would look down on people about the conversations they were having about silly things. I would feel kind of numb and miserable. And then I realized that if you want to be able to keep doing this work, you have to choose to embrace the privileges that you've been given. And you have to choose joy and choose love and be kind to yourself and have a glass of wine and go dancing or run up a mountain—whatever it is that does it for you, embrace it. That is part of the tax you pay for surviving these things: You've got to continue to love life.” This is the first in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.7	Hey there, it's Max.
0:50.3	So you might remember, around this time last year, we did a five-part series of interviews
0:55.2	with winners of the prestigious George Polk Journalism Award.
0:59.0	And I am very happy to say we're back.
1:00.9	We're doing it again.
1:02.1	Every day this week, Monday through Friday, we're going to air an interview with a different
1:05.3	Polk Award winner discussing the work that earned them the award.
1:09.4	And I just want to say, on a somewhat optimistic note, the competition this year was stiff.
1:15.0	The Polk Awards got a record number of submissions this year and from a record number of outlets,
1:20.2	which just feels to me like a real testament to the enduring value and power and importance
1:26.4	of investigative journalism.
1:28.6	So some of the people that you'll hear from this week are folks that you've heard on
1:32.0	the show before, but some of them are brand new to the podcast, including this first guest,
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