Michael Ware Biography
Michael Ware is an Australian journalist and film director. He previously worked for CNN and was based in their Baghdad office for several years. He joined CNN in May 2006, after working at Time magazine for five years.
How old is Michael Ware?- Age
Ware is 54 years old as of March 2023. He was born on 25 March 1969 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Michael Ware Education
He attended Brisbane Grammar School and graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Laws and a degree in Political Science.
Michael Ware Career
He joined CNN in May 2006, after working at Time magazine for five years. His final appearance on the network’s broadcast was in December 2009. He was one of the few mainstream journalists to have lived in Iraq almost constantly since before the American invasion, and he rose to prominence early on for his willingness to make ties with the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi insurgency. In mid-2003, he reported on the severity of the escalating opposition Western coalition forces faced, and his connections furnished him with questionable videotapes of coalition personnel being attacked, including the murder of four Blackwater contractors. Ware has been embedded with American and British military forces on multiple occasions, and many of his reports reporting situations have focused on the coalition forces.
He was a reporter for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane from 1995 to 2000, and he rose to prominence when a series of articles prompted a formal investigation into police treatment (or lack thereof) of a pedophile ring. His first assignment for Time magazine took him to East Timor in 2000, and he went to Afghanistan in December 2001 to chronicle the US hunt for al-Qaeda. Ware traveled to the Kurdistan region as preparations for the invasion of Iraq began in early 2003. Although he has been embedded with US forces in battle, he has also visited insurgent camps and reported on their perspectives on the war. Reports from Kabul, Kandahar, Fallujah, Tikrit, Tal Afar, Mosul, Samarra, Ramadi, and Baghdad have appeared in Time.
He was chosen as Baghdad Bureau Chief for Time magazine. He was embedded for the Tal Afar assault in September 2005, and his harrowing film of the conflict was used in a Frontline documentary and a 60 Minutes story. When he was at CNN, he worked alongside Thomas Evans, who produced for Anderson Cooper. Before going to Iraq in 2006, he spent three weeks in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley as part of CNN’s crew covering Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. In 2007, he reported from Marseilles and Paris for CNN Sports on the quadrennial Rugby World Cup. He covered Pakistan’s legislative elections for CNN and anchored Pakistan’s Vital Vote in February 2008. Iraq: Inside the Surge, a 30-minute CNN series, aired in April 2008.
In August 2008, he covered the South Ossetia War between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia, reporting from Tbilisi, Gori, and Poti at various periods. Beginning in early 2009, he began reporting from Juárez and Mexico City on Mexican drug cartels. He undertook a one-year leave of absence from CNN in May 2010 to be treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In September 2010, the Australian ABC network aired a two-part special on Ware’s career called Australian Story. He was added to The Daily Beast’s list of contributors in April 2011, and he also penned a piece for Newsweek.
Michael Ware’s Net Worth
Michael has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.