Journalism Career
Ward began her journalism career writing a gossip column at Condé Nast, followed by a position at the Daily Telegraph, writing features and the weekly "Financial Diary". Later Ward became the editor of The Independent's daily gossip column. She was a runner up for Britain’s annual award for women journalists under 25.
Before moving to the United States in 1997, Ward wrote for a number of British publications, including the Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times magazine and the Daily Mail, for which she became the features correspondent in the US, where she was assigned stories in the Arctic, Hollywood, and in several US States.
In 1998, Ward began working at the New York Post, before becoming the executive editor of Talk magazine. Since then, she has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and blogs for VanityFair.com and the Huffington Post.
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