Michael Ware Joins CNN as
Baghdad-based Correspondent (CNN News Release)
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
CNN PRESS RELEASE
Michael Ware, the TIME magazine Baghdad bureau chief
who gained renown for in-depth coverage of the
insurgency in Iraq, will join CNN as a correspondent
based in Baghdad, it was announced today by Tony
Maddox, senior vice president of international
newsgathering operations.
A frequent guest to CNN over the last five
years, Ware becomes a full-time international
correspondent providing news reports and analysis
across all CNN networks. On CNN/U.S., Ware will
be a regular contributor to Anderson Cooper 360° as
well as appearing on other programs.
“Michael is one of the most accomplished
correspondents working in Iraq. His
exclusive stories and unique insights into the
workings of the insurgency will increase the scope
and depth of our reporting,” Maddox said. “He joins a
fantastic CNN team of committed journalists in
Baghdad, and we are very excited to have him as a
full-time member of the CNN
family.”
“Michael is one of the most unique voices covering
the region," said Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S.
“He makes a complex, constantly-shifting story easy
to follow.”
Ware began writing for TIME in 2001 with an
assignment in the Solomon Islands and then one during
the war in Afghanistan later that year. As coalition
forces began preparations for war in 2003, Ware
relocated to Iraq and became an embedded reporter
with U.S. forces. He gained notice as one of the few
Western journalists to travel to insurgent camps and
report on that perspective of the war. He was also
the only embedded journalist to cover the September
2005 assault on Tal Afar.
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