Journalism career
Before moving to the United States, Ward worked as a columnist and feature writer for The Independent. [5] Ward moved to New York City in 1997, where she worked at the New York Post and was Tina Brown's editor at Talk. [6] [7] Throughout the 2000s, she wrote investigative stories for Vanity Fair on topics such as Hewlett Packard and its CEO Carly Fiorina, [2] Kate Middleton, [8] and a profile of Jeffrey Epstein. [9]
Ward worked as a contributing editor to Vanity Fair as well as a columnist for the London Evening Standard . In 2010, she published her first book, The Devil's Casino, on the downfall of Lehman Brothers. [10] [11]
As a journalist, Ward has contributed to a variety of publications in the United States and the United Kingdom, such as the Financial Times , The New York Times , Esquire, the London Times , The Daily Telegraph , The Spectator , and British Vogue . [5]
In July 2017, Ward became editor-at-large for HuffPost and Huffington Post Highline, [12] where she wrote features on individuals including Erik Prince, [13] Michael Cohen, Anthony Scaramucci, among others. [14] [15]
In 2019, Ward said her 2003 profile of Jeffrey Epstein in Vanity Fair had included on-the-record accounts of Annie and Maria Farmer (who filed the earliest known criminal complaints about Epstein), but that they were later stricken from Ward's article after Epstein pressured the magazine's editor Graydon Carter. [9] [16] While researching Epstein, Ward was pregnant with twins and reported that she felt compelled to hire security protection for their neonatal intensive care unit after Epstein had threatened their wellbeing. [17] [18] [19] That year, Ward published Kushner, Inc. , a book about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. [20]
In July 2019, Ward was named Senior Reporter at CNN. [21] Ward later became editor-at-large at Town & Country magazine. [5] In June 2020, Ward joined the Council on Foreign Relations. [22] In September 2023, Ward was named a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. [23]
In 2025, Ward and James Patterson published their book The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy. [24] [25] In August 2025, Ward and Patterson announced their collaboration on an upcoming book about the killing of Brian Thompson. The book is planned to be published by Little, Brown and Company. No title or release date was given. [26]
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