Recent Work
At Vanity Fair, Ward works as an investigative reporter. She has profiled Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina, counter-terrorist expert Richard Clarke, Vivendi former chief Jean-Marie Messier, and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. She wrote about CIA agent Valerie Plame in a 2004 article. Ward has also written about the worlds of art and society: she has chronicled disputes at the Getty Museum, and at New York's Guggenheim; she profiled art collector and luxury magnate François Pinault as well as art publisher Louise MacBain; she has also profiled society figures Leila Hadley Luce and the late Brooke Astor.
On CNBC, she has appeared on various programs to discuss topics including the glass ceiling, the battle for the Tribune Newspaper Group, and war profiteering, in an interview with War, Inc. actor John Cusack.
She has also discussed the "booming call-girl industry", having profiled Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the “D. C. Madam” (with whom she was in close communication up until Palfrey’s recent suicide), as well as making various appearances discussing former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer in the days following his prostitution scandal.
Her first non-fiction book, The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, released by John F. Wiley & Sons, Inc in April 2010, became a New York Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Spear's Financial Book of the Year Award. Writing for The Washington Post, Stanley Bing wrote, "Ward carefully and skillfully tracks the last 25 or so years of the great, doomed enterprise, and her portrait of a business entity is often engaging, spicy and amusing. I particularly enjoyed the horror stories about those few, strategically challenged souls who had the temerity not to learn golf." The Financial Times also praised the book, saying, "Ward hones in on Lehman's central problems better than even she could have known. the closest thing to a bodice-ripper that the 2008 meltdown is likely to produce," although James Pressley, writing for the AP, took issue with the book's use of anonymous sources.
In recognition for her journalistic work, Ward received Women: Inspiration and Enterprise's first media award in September 2010.
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