Eason Jordan is the CEO of Oryx Strategies, a New York-based strategic planning and communications company he founded in December 2017.
He previously helped launch and lead CNN, NowThis, the Malala Fund and several of his own companies.
At CNN, where he worked 1982-2005, he served as chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks.
He subsequently (2005-2012) headed several companies he founded, including Poll Position, Headline Apps and Praedict.
In 2012, he joined NowThis, a digital video news service, as its founding general manager, working there for two years.
He later (2014-2017) served as a director at the Malala Fund, the education-focused foundation launched by Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate and U.N. Messenger of Peace. He initially served as the organization's director of operations and communications and later as its director of special projects.
Jordan serves on the board of directors of the Fugees Family NGO, is an adviser to Brava Investments and is member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ONE Campaign.
He was portrayed by the actor Clark Gregg in Live From Baghdad (2002), a film about the team of CNN journalists who covered the first Gulf War. As CNN 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 CNN on the map".
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Awards
He is the recipient of four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Award. At the age of 31, he received the Livingston Award's "Special Citation For Outstanding Achievement" (previously only given posthumously) for coverage of the Gulf War, the Soviet crisis, and the African famine. The Livingston Awards for excellence by professionals under the age of 35 are the largest all-media, general reporting prizes in American journalism.
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Controversy
On April 11, 2003, Jordan revealed that CNN 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 U.S. soldiers targeted reporters "maybe knowing they were killing journalists, out of anger"--claims that Jordan denied. However, U.S. News & World Report editor-at-large David Gergen, who moderated the discussion, and BBC executive Richard Sambrook defended Jordan and claimed his remarks, though controversial, were not as extreme as they were hyped and that he did not deserve to be removed from CNN.
On February 11, 2005, Jordan resigned to "prevent CNN 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 U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul".
References
External links
- Eason Jordan's web site
- Eason Jordan's bio at WEF
- Eason Jordan's bio at CNN CNN 1996
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- The News We Kept to Ourselves
- CNN executive: Iraq targeted network's journalists CNN April 11, 2003
- Do US Troops Target Journalists in Iraq?
- CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits AP Reuters February 11, 2005
- NowThis News's web site
- "Fast Company" report on NowThis News
- "Fortune" magazine report on NowThis News
- "American Journalism Review" report on NowThis News
- "Columbia Journalism Review" report on NowThis News
- TV Newser report on Jordan joining NowThis News
- "Fast Company" report on Jordan's role at the Malala Fund
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