Career
He joined the Malala Fund in January 2014, initially serving as the upstart organization"s director of operations and communications. Previously, he served as the founding general manager of NowThis News, a digital video news network distributed via mobile devices and social networks.The New York-based company debuted in the fall of 2012. Its primary audience is the digital generation, millennials.
In its first months since launch, NowThis News garnered viewers in 216 nations and territories.
From 2005 until 2012, Jordan was an entrepreneur who launched and led several small companies, including Poll Position, Headline Apps, and Praedict. Prior to that, he worked for 23 years at Cable News Network (1982-2005), where he served as the network"s chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks.
He is the recipient of four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Award. The Livingston Awards for excellence by professionals under the age of 35 are the largest all-media, general reporting prizes in American journalism.
He studied journalism at Georgia State University.
He was portrayed by the actor Clark Gregg in Live From Baghdad (2002), a film about the team of Cable News Network journalists who covered the first Gulf War. As Cable News Network was the only news organization broadcasting live, firsthand reports from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, for most of the war, this is widely considered the event that "put Cable News Network on the map". On April 11, 2003, Jordan revealed that Cable News Network knew about human rights abuses committed in Iraq by Saddam Hussein since 1990 in a New York Times story called "The News We Kept to Ourselves".
Alleged comments at 2005 World Economic Forum
On January 27, 2005, during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan was reported to have said that American troops were targeting journalists.
Although there is no transcript of Jordan"s statement, Barney Frank claimed Jordan seemed to be suggesting "it was official military policy to take out journalists", and later added that some United States. soldiers targeted reporters "maybe knowing they were killing journalists, out of anger"—claims that Jordan denied. On February 11, 2005, Jordan resigned to "prevent Cable News Network from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq".
In a press release, Jordan also stated that "I have great admiration and respect for the men and women of the United States. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul".