Michael Ware Biography
Michael Ware is an Australian journalist who previously worked for CNN and was based in their Baghdad office for a number of years. After spending five years with Time’s sister publication, he joined CNN in May 2006. In December 2009, he made his final network appearance on television.
Michael Ware Age
Ware is 53 years old as of 2022. She was born on 25 March 1969 in Brisbane, Australia.
Michael Ware Height
Ware stands at a height of 6 feet 5 inches (1.9m).
Michael Ware Family
Ware is the son of Len Ware and Gail Ware, who still lives in Brisbane. He has a sister named Kimberley Ware who is two years younger.
Michael Ware Wife
Ware has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Michael Ware Only the Dead
Ware said that he would not be joining CNN again in February 2011. Later, he revealed to an Australian publication that he had established Penance Films, a production business, and had just finished a documentary about his experience in Iraq called Only the Dead, which was published in 2015. The Sydney Writers’ Festival featured Ware’s movie, which went on to win the Documentary Australia Foundation Award. Moreover, the movie received a Walkley Documentary Award.
Michael Ware Iraq war
A segment of a videotape supplied to Ware that showed snipers shooting at and allegedly killing American soldiers was broadcast on CNN on October 18, 2006. Following the broadcast of the news story, Tony Snow, the press secretary for the White House, charged CNN with “propagandizing” the American people. Then-House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter requested that Donald Rumsfeld withdraw CNN’s embedded reporters from Iraq.
Michael Ware Salary
Ware earns an annual salary of $76,315.
Michael Ware Net Worth
Ware has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Michael Ware Career
Ware attended Brisbane Grammar School before graduating from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Laws and a degree in Political Science. Before going into journalism, he worked for Tony Fitzgerald, who was then the President of the Supreme Court of Queensland, for a year as an associate. He was employed for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane and became well-known in the community as a result of several pieces that resulted in a formal investigation of how the police handled a pedophile ring. Ware declined to identify the people who gave him the confidential police records in this case.
He traveled to East Timor for one of Time magazine’s first assignments in 2000, and in December 2001, he entered Afghanistan to report on the American hunt for al-Qaeda. Ware moved to the Kurdistan region in early 2003 as plans for the invasion of Iraq got under way. He has participated in combat alongside American troops, but he has also visited insurgent camps and written about their view of the conflict. Reports from Kabul, Kandahar, Fallujah, Tikrit, Tal Afar, Mosul, Samarra, Ramadi, and Baghdad have appeared under his Time bylines.
Ware was briefly held at gunpoint by fighters loyal to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi in September 2004 while looking into claims that his fledgling “al-Qaeda in Iraq” organization was openly claiming control of the Haifa Street neighborhood of Baghdad. The fighters had pulled pins from live grenades and forced Ware’s car to stop.
With the intention of having his personal video camera record his execution, the men took him from the car and placed him in front of one of the flags. His local guides, who included Ba’ath Party members, were able to secure his release by threatening them with swift and harsh vengeance. According to Ware, if this had occurred a few months later, when Zarqawi’s organization had become more powerful, he would have been put to death.
He was appointed the Baghdad Bureau Chief for Time magazine in October 2004. He was there for the Tal Afar assault in September 2005, and Frontline and 60 Minutes both included his heartbreaking footage of the conflict. When working for CNN, he collaborated with Thomas Evans, an Anderson Cooper producer.
He covered the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in August 2006 for CNN for three weeks, traveling to Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, before heading back to Iraq. He reported from Marseilles and Paris while covering the annual Rugby World Cup for CNN Sports in October 2007. He anchored Pakistan’s Vital Vote and covered the Pakistani parliamentary elections for CNN in February 2008. He hosted the 30-minute CNN special Iraq: Inside the Surge in April 2008.
He reported from several locations in the towns of Tbilisi, Gori, and Poti during the South Ossetia War between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia in August 2008. He started covering the Mexican drug gangs in the beginning of 2009, reporting from Juárez and Mexico City. He started a one-year leave of absence from CNN in May 2010 to receive post-traumatic stress disorder treatment (PTSD).
A two-part documentary on Ware’s career aired on the Australian ABC network’s program Australian Story in September 2010. He began contributing to The Daily Beast in April 2011 and previously penned a column for Newsweek.
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