From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eason Jordan
Eason Jordan
Eason T. Jordan is an entrepreneur who launched and geted reporters "maybe knowing they were killing jour-
leads several small companies. He previously worked for nalists, out of anger" – claims that Jordan denied.[3]
23 years at CNN, where he served as the network’s chief On February 11, 2005, Jordan resigned to "prevent
news executive and president of newsgathering and in- CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy
ternational networks. He is the recipient of four Emmy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regard-
Awards, two Peabody Awards and the DuPont-Columbia ing the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq." [2]
Award. At the age of 31, he received the Livingston In his press release Jordan also stated that "I have great
Award’s (previously only given posthumously) "Special admiration and respect for the men and women of the
Citation For Outstanding Achievement" for coverage of U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and
the Gulf War, the Soviet crisis, and the African famine. been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul."[4]
The Livingston Awards for excellence by professionals
under the age of 35 are the largest all-media, general re-
porting prizes in American journalism. He studied jour-
References
nalism at Georgia State University. [1] http://nation.foxnews.com/fox-news/2011/09/19/
Jordan serves on the leadership council of the Com- poll-fox-news-best-tv-news-network
mittee to Protect Journalists, the North America board of [2] http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0911/
the International News Safety Institute, and the adviso- Poll_More_prefer_Fox_News.html
ry board of Peacetree Productions. He is a member of the [3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
Council on Foreign Relations and the ONE Campaign. articles/A17462-2005Feb11.html
He was portrayed by the actor Clark Gregg in "Live [4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
From Baghdad" (2002), a film about the team of CNN jour- articles/A17462-2005Feb11.html
nalists who covered the first Gulf War. As CNN was the
only news organization broadcasting live first hand re-
ports of the war, this is widely considered the event that
External links
"put CNN on the map". • Eason Jordan’s web site
Jordan’s latest start-up is called Poll Position, a non- • Eason Jordan’s bio at WEF
partisan polling company that conducts scientific polls • Eason Jordan’s bio at CNN CNN 1996
on trending topics in several domains. Poll Position is • The News We Kept to Ourselves
an oft-cited source for major media organizations[1] and • CNN executive: Iraq targeted network’s journalists
blogs[2] that consider the company’s polls to be impartial CNN April 11, 2003
and sound. Poll Position also aims to engage the public • Do US Troops Target Journalists in Iraq?
by encourage individuals to vote in the latest polls on the • CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits AP Reuters
company’s website. February 11, 2005
• Jordan’s latest company, Poll Position
Controversy Persondata
Name Jordan, Eason
On April 11, 2003, Jordan revealed that CNN knew about
human rights abuses committed in Iraq by Saddam Hus- Alternative names
sein since 1990 in a New York Times story called "The News Short description
We Kept to Ourselves".[1] Date of birth October 16, 1960
On January 27, 2005, during the World Economic Fo-
Place of birth
rum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan was
reported to have said that American troops were target- Date of death
ing journalists. Although there is no transcript of Jor- Place of death
dan’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 tar-
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