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Peter J. Ward
Peter Ward is the co-host of "SportsLife NYC.
From 2003-2006 Peter co-hosted YES Network Magazine, where he received three New York Emmy Nominations.
In 2005, Ward wrote and produced The White House Special with First Lady Laura Bush, a YES Network exclusive on "Helping America's Youth."
In 2004, Peter toured the Middle East while writing and directing a one-hour special for the History Channel entitled; "Inside Baghdad".
Ward led a team of nine people to London, Jordan, Kuwait and Baghdad assembling interviews and rare war footage while traveling through the most volatile parts of the war zone.
While in Baghdad, he became the first American journalist to interview the Iraqi National Tennis Team as they prepared for their first Davis Cup.
Three months after the interview, several players and coaches he profiled were killed by insurgents on the streets of Baghdad.
That same year, his half-hour Special, "Scarlet Lettermen" a YES Network Magazine Special report on high school athletes and hazing, received a New York Emmy nomination.
A former print journalist, he began his career as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, where he covered everything from local and state politics to crime.
In 1991, he was the first reporter to tell the story of Chante Fernandez, a single mother arrested for leaving her five year-old child in a car while she worked in a New Jersey mall.
He also reported on the first car-jacking murder case in New Jersey and secured an exclusive interview with the victim's husband and family.
After writing for The New York Times, Peter joined the Today Show as a writer and producer before becoming a freelance writer, producer and director.
In March of 2007, he appeared for the first time as an on-air correspondent for The Today Show.
Also last year, Ward joined the Montclair Kimberley Academy Varsity Football team as Quarterback Coach where he will return for the 2008 season.
He and his family live in New Jersey.
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