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'''Mary Catherine Jordan''' is an American journalist and author who is Associate Editor at the ''[[Washington Post]]''. She was a foreign correspondent for 14 years. With her husband, [[Kevin Sullivan (journalist)|Kevin Sullivan]], Jordan ran the newspaper's bureaus in [[Tokyo]], [[Mexico City]] and [[London]]. Jordan also was the founding editor and head of content for Washington Post Live.
'''Mary Catherine Jordan''' (born November 10, 1960) is a [[Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting|Pulitzer Prize-winning]] American journalist, best-selling author and National Correspondent for the ''[[Washington Post]]''.<ref>''The Washington Post''. [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/mary+jordan/ Washington Post National: Staff – Mary Jordan].</ref>


Jordan wrote the 2020 book, ''The Art of Her Deal,'' an unauthorized biography of [[Melania Trump]]. With Sullivan, she also wrote ''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland'' in 2015. ''Hope'' was written with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the women who were kidnapped and held for a decade in Cleveland, Jordan's hometown. Jordan interviews people for the “What it Takes” podcast created by the [[Academy of Achievement]].<ref>Academy of Achievement. Director & Our Team. [http://www.achievement.org/our-history/director-staff/ "Interviewers"].</ref>
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For 14 years she was a foreign correspondent and she has written from nearly 40 countries. With her husband, ''Post'' journalist [[Kevin Sullivan (journalist)|Kevin Sullivan]], Jordan ran the newspaper's bureaus in [[Tokyo]], [[Mexico City]] and [[London]]. Jordan also was the founding editor and head of content for Washington Post Live, which organizes political debates, conferences and news events for the media company.


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==Early life and education==
Jordan and Sullivan are the authors of the Number #1 Bestselling book, ''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland,'' that was released in April, 2015.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-05-17/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html</ref> Hope is written with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the women who were kidnapped and held for a decade in Cleveland, Jordan's hometown.
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Jordan, a daughter of Irish immigrants, was born and raised in [[Cleveland|Cleveland, Ohio]]. She attended Saint Joseph Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1979. She graduated from [[Georgetown University]] in 1983 and earned a master's degree from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://washingtonpostlive.com/conferences/speakers/mary-jordan-1 | title=Mary Jordan Nov. 9 | publisher=Washington Post Live | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730015728/http://washingtonpostlive.com/conferences/speakers/mary-jordan-1 | archivedate=2012-07-30 }}</ref> In 1989–90, Jordan was awarded a [[Nieman Foundation for Journalism|Nieman Fellowship]] by [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/NiemanFellowships/MeetTheFellows/NiemanPulitzerWinners.aspx | title=Mary Jordan's Nieman Fellowship Nov. 9|publisher=Nieman Foundation}}</ref>


==Career==
Jordan also interviews some of the world's most accomplished people for the popular “What it Takes” podcast created by the nonprofit Academy of Achievement.<ref>http://www.achievement.org/our-history/director-staff/</ref> Among those she has spoken with as part of this free podcast series,<ref>https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-takes/id1025864075?mt=2</ref> include singing legend Julie Andrews, artificial intelligence innovator Demis Hassabis, and Irish novelist John Banville.
Jordan was given her first job in the newspaper business by Irish author and editor [[Tim Pat Coogan]], who hired her to write a column in ''[[The Irish Press]]''.{{cn|date=March 2024}}


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As a national correspondent for the Post, Jordan has written about U.S. politics and society and has appeared as an analyst on ABC, and BBC. Jordan was the founding editor and moderator for Washington Post Live, which hosted forums including "The 40th Anniversary of [[Watergate]]" in June 2012 that featured key Watergate figures including former [[White House counsel]] [[John Dean]], Washington Post editor [[Ben Bradlee]], and reporters [[Bob Woodward]] and [[Carl Bernstein]].{{cn|date=March 2024}}
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==Early life and career==


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Jordan has interviewed newsmakers including singer and songwriter [[Paul McCartney]], Colombian novelist [[Gabriel García Márquez]], British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], and [[Benjamin Arellano Felix]], one of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins.{{cn|date=March 2024}} She has written about injustices and discrimination against women including the exceedingly low conviction rate of rape in Britain<ref>''The Washington Post''. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101782.html "A British Diplomat's Mission Of Rescue"].</ref> and the many girls in India denied schooling solely because they were not born male.<ref>''The Washington Post''. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121204265.html "This Is the Destiny of Girls"].</ref>
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Jordan, a daughter of Irish immigrants, was born and raised in [[Cleveland|Cleveland, Ohio]]. For her high school experience, she attended Saint Joseph Academy in Cleveland, Ohio (Class of 1979). She graduated from [[Georgetown University]] in 1983 and earned a master's degree from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://washingtonpostlive.com/conferences/speakers/mary-jordan-1 | title=Mary Jordan Nov. 9 | publisher=Washington Post Live | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730015728/http://washingtonpostlive.com/conferences/speakers/mary-jordan-1 | archivedate=2012-07-30 | df= }}</ref> In 1989–90, Jordan was awarded a [[Nieman Foundation for Journalism|Nieman Fellowship]] by [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/NiemanFellowships/MeetTheFellows/NiemanPulitzerWinners.aspx | title=Mary Jordan's Nieman Fellowship Nov. 9|publisher=Nieman Foundation}}</ref>


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Jordan and Sullivan authored ''The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail'' (The Penguin Press, 2005). In 2006, the book won the Christopher Award, which "salutes media that affirm the highest values of the human spirit."{{cn|date=March 2024}}
For a year at [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College]] in [[Dublin]], Ireland, she studied [[W. B. Yeats]] and other Irish poets. She was given her first job in the newspaper business by Irish author and editor [[Tim Pat Coogan]], who hired her to write a column in ''[[The Irish Press]]''. She enrolled in Japanese language classes at Georgetown University before moving to Tokyo for four years and studied Spanish on a post-graduate fellowship at [[Stanford University]] before moving to Mexico for five years.


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Together with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, [[Ariel Castro kidnappings|two of the women kidnapped]] and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Jordan and Sullivan wrote the bestselling book ''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland'', published by Viking in April 2015.
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In 2018, Jordan was a national correspondent for the Washington Post writing about politics and the Trump administration and appearing on ABC, BBC, and other TV networks. She covered the 2016 campaign, writing in-depth political stories and profiles. Jordan was also the founding editor and moderator for Washington Post Live, which hosted forums including "The 40th Anniversary of [[Watergate]]" in June 2012 that featured key Watergate figures including former [[White House counsel]] [[John Dean]], Washington Post editor [[Ben Bradlee]], and reporters [[Bob Woodward]] and [[Carl Bernstein]]. It was held at the Watergate hotel.


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Jordan was part of the team that reported ''Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power'', a Washington Post biography of [[Donald Trump]] published by Scribner in 2016. Jordan was a contributing writer to ''Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America'', edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018.
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She has interviewed many newsmakers all over the world including singer and songwriter [[Paul McCartney]], Colombian novelist [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]], British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], and [[Benjamin Arellano Felix]], one of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins. She has written extensively about injustices and discrimination against women including the exceedingly low conviction rate of rape in Britain<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101782.html</ref> and the many girls in India denied schooling solely because they were not born male.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121204265.html</ref>


Jordan and Sullivan are the authors of ''Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath,'' published by Scribner in August 2020. The book, with reporting contributions from ''Washington Post'' colleagues, received a “starred” review by Kirkus, which said it “sets a standard for political storytelling with impeccable research and lively writing.”<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kevin-sullivan/trump-on-trial | title=TRUMP ON TRIAL &#124; Kirkus Reviews }}</ref> The paperback was updated to include the second Trump impeachment and was published in 2021 as ''Trump’s Trials''.
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==Career recognition and awards==


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==Awards and recognition ==
Jordan and Sullivan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their ''Post'' series on the "horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people," as the Pulitzer Board described.<ref>The Pulitzer Prize. [http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2003-International-Reporting "The 2003 Pulitzer Prize winners: International Reporting"].</ref> Along with four ''Post'' photographers, Jordan and Sullivan were also finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series of stories on the difficulties women face around the world. The Pulitzer jury called the series a "sensitive examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations."<ref>The Pulitzer Prize. [http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/2009 "2009 Finalists"].</ref>
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Along with four ''Post'' photographers, Jordan and Sullivan were finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series of stories on the difficulties women face around the world. Jordan and Sullivan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their ''Post'' series on the "horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people".


Jordan has also won the [[George Polk Award]], and accolades from the [[Overseas Press Club of America]] and the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].
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Jordan and Sullivan authored ''The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail'' (The Penguin Press, 2005).<ref>Jordan, Mary, and Kevin Sullivan. [http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143037170,00.html The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail]. New York: Penguin, 2005. Print.</ref> In 2006, the book won the Christopher Award, which "salutes media that affirm the highest values of the human spirit."<ref>[http://www.christophers.org/Page.aspx?pid=217 The Christopher Awards].</ref>


In 2016, Jordan was the winner of the Washington Post’s Eugene Meyer Award for her contributions to the paper.
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Together with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, [[Ariel Castro kidnappings|two of the women kidnapped]] and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Jordan and Sullivan wrote the bestselling book ''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland'', published by Viking in April 2015.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/26/amanda-berry-gina-dejesus-book-cleveland-ariel-castro/26175649/ | title=After a decade of terror, Cleveland captives on their scars — and futures | work=USA Today | date=27 April 2015 | accessdate=15 May 2015}}</ref>

Jordan has also won numerous other awards including the [[George Polk Award]]<ref>http://liu.edu/George-Polk-Awards/Past-Winners</ref>, and accolades from the [[Overseas Press Club of America]]<ref>https://opcofamerica.org/Awardarchive/madeline-dane-ross-award-1998/</ref> and the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110526161523/http://www.spj.org/sdxa2002c.asp</ref>

In 2016, Jordan was the winner of the Washington Post’s Eugene Meyer Award for her exceptional contributions to the paper.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2016/12/15/the-washington-post-honored-news-production-engineering-staff-at-34th-annual-eugene-meyer-awards/?utm_term=.625383488917</ref>

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Jordan was part of the team that reported Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, a Washington Post biography of Donald Trump published by Scribner in 2016.

Jordan was a contributing writer to Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America, edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018 among those honored at the Irish embassy in Washington.


== Works ==
== Works ==
===Bibliography===
===Bibliography===
*{{cite book|author1=Amanda Berry|author2=Gina DeJesus|author3=Mary Jordan |author4=Kevin Sullivan |title=Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QUbBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT263|date=27 April 2015|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-698-17895-3|}}
*{{cite book|author1=Mary Jordan |author2=Kevin Sullivan |title=''The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Life of Service in a Mexican Jail'' |date=30 May 2006|publisher=[[Penguin Group|Penguin Publishing Group]]}}
*{{cite book|author1=Michael Kranish|author2=Marc Fisher|title=Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1501155784|date=23 August 2016|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-1616205171|}}
*{{cite book|author1=Amanda Berry|author2=Gina DeJesus|author3=Mary Jordan |author4=Kevin Sullivan |title=''Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland''|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QUbBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT263|date=27 April 2015|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-698-17895-3}}
*{{cite book|author1=Mark Bailey|title=Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1616208228|date=6 March 2018|publisher=Algonquin Books|isbn=978-1616205171|Essay on 'The Peacemaker, Niall O'Dowd (1953 - )|}}
*{{cite book|author1=Michael Kranish|author2=Marc Fisher|title=''Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power''|url=https://archive.org/details/trumprevealedame0000kran|url-access=registration|quote=isbn:1501155784.|date=23 August 2016|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-1616205171}}
*{{cite book|author1=Mark Bailey|title=''Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America''|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fpw0DwAAQBAJ|date=6 March 2018|publisher=Algonquin Books|isbn=978-1616205171}}

*{{cite book|author1=Mary Jordan |title=''The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of [[Melania Trump]]''|date=16 June 2020|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]}}
===Appearances and interviews===
*Kevin Sullivan; Mary Jordan (25 August 2020). [https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Trial-Investigation-Impeachment-Acquittal/dp/1982152990 "Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath."] Scribner. ISBN 978-0821-5299-4.

*[http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/chip-on-your-shoulder/69900/shoulder-to-shoulder-the-art-and-chaos-of-collaboration/ Shoulder to Shoulder: The Art and Chaos of Collaboration] (Poynter Institute, 2005)
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/a-book-on-the-cleveland-kidnapping-survivors/2015/04/29/105e33a4-edef-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_video.html The Cleveland kidnapping: 'He took everything away'] (Washington Post TV, 2015)
*[https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6970 Hope: Survival in Cleveland: 2015 National Book Festival] (Library of Congress, 2015)


===Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories===
===Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories===
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*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102502182.html In Affluent Germany, Women Still Confront Traditional Bias]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102502182.html In Affluent Germany, Women Still Confront Traditional Bias]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803583.html In Britain, Rape Cases Seldom Result in a Conviction]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803583.html In Britain, Rape Cases Seldom Result in a Conviction]

===Other selected works===
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110201908.html Plugging the Planet Into the World]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/brokenlives/broken1a.htm Middle Class Plunging Back Into Poverty]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/brokenlives/broken4a.htm Death of 3 Salesmen – Partners in Suicide]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/06/AR2006110601256.html A Hymn to Yesterday: Paul McCartney Premieres His Choral Work, an Elegy for Linda]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/?utm_term=.e6c1eff28f08 The un-Celebrity President]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/03/18/fear-hope-and-deportations/?utm_term=.ac95a912ce00 Fear, Hope and Deportations]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/05/13/the-painful-truth-about-teeth/?utm_term=.fb6ef51dffc4 The Painful Truth about Teeth]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-an-undocumented-irish-immigrant-became-an-unofficial-us-diplomat/2018/03/07/58766a64-1324-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.8e4652db2695 How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. Diplomat]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-women-see-revenge-in-macrons-marriage-to-an-older-woman/2017/05/03/3b21fc1a-2f47-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html?utm_term=.f72cad7eb30f Emmanuel Macron is 39 and his wife is 64. French women say it’s about time]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/meet-melania-trump-a-new-model-for-first-lady/2015/09/30/27ad0a9c-6781-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html?utm_term=.a22ed7629e3b Meet Melania Trump, a new model for First Lady]


===[[Poynter Institute]] interview with Sullivan and Jordan===
===[[Poynter Institute]] interview with Sullivan and Jordan===
*[http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/chip-on-your-shoulder/69900/shoulder-to-shoulder-the-art-and-chaos-of-collaboration/# Shoulder to Shoulder: The Art and Chaos of Collaboration]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110220134148/http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/chip-on-your-shoulder/69900/shoulder-to-shoulder-the-art-and-chaos-of-collaboration/ Shoulder to Shoulder: The Art and Chaos of Collaboration]


==References==
==References==
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Mary Jordan
Jordan at the 2015 National Book Festival
Jordan at the 2015 National Book Festival
Born (1960-11-10) November 10, 1960 (age 64)
Cleveland
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
EducationSaint Joseph Academy
Alma materGeorgetown University,
Columbia University
Genrenon-fiction
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Mary Catherine Jordan is an American journalist and author who is Associate Editor at the Washington Post. She was a foreign correspondent for 14 years. With her husband, Kevin Sullivan, Jordan ran the newspaper's bureaus in Tokyo, Mexico City and London. Jordan also was the founding editor and head of content for Washington Post Live.

Jordan wrote the 2020 book, The Art of Her Deal, an unauthorized biography of Melania Trump. With Sullivan, she also wrote Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland in 2015. Hope was written with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the women who were kidnapped and held for a decade in Cleveland, Jordan's hometown. Jordan interviews people for the “What it Takes” podcast created by the Academy of Achievement.[1]

Early life and education

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Jordan, a daughter of Irish immigrants, was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Saint Joseph Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1979. She graduated from Georgetown University in 1983 and earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1984.[2] In 1989–90, Jordan was awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University.[3]

Career

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Jordan was given her first job in the newspaper business by Irish author and editor Tim Pat Coogan, who hired her to write a column in The Irish Press.[citation needed]

As a national correspondent for the Post, Jordan has written about U.S. politics and society and has appeared as an analyst on ABC, and BBC. Jordan was the founding editor and moderator for Washington Post Live, which hosted forums including "The 40th Anniversary of Watergate" in June 2012 that featured key Watergate figures including former White House counsel John Dean, Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.[citation needed]

Jordan has interviewed newsmakers including singer and songwriter Paul McCartney, Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Benjamin Arellano Felix, one of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins.[citation needed] She has written about injustices and discrimination against women including the exceedingly low conviction rate of rape in Britain[4] and the many girls in India denied schooling solely because they were not born male.[5]

Jordan and Sullivan authored The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail (The Penguin Press, 2005). In 2006, the book won the Christopher Award, which "salutes media that affirm the highest values of the human spirit."[citation needed]

Together with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the women kidnapped and held for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Jordan and Sullivan wrote the bestselling book Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, published by Viking in April 2015.

Jordan was part of the team that reported Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, a Washington Post biography of Donald Trump published by Scribner in 2016. Jordan was a contributing writer to Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America, edited by Mark Bailey and published by Algonquin Books in 2018.

Jordan and Sullivan are the authors of Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath, published by Scribner in August 2020. The book, with reporting contributions from Washington Post colleagues, received a “starred” review by Kirkus, which said it “sets a standard for political storytelling with impeccable research and lively writing.”[6] The paperback was updated to include the second Trump impeachment and was published in 2021 as Trump’s Trials.

Awards and recognition

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Along with four Post photographers, Jordan and Sullivan were finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series of stories on the difficulties women face around the world. Jordan and Sullivan won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their Post series on the "horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people".

Jordan has also won the George Polk Award, and accolades from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of Professional Journalists.

In 2016, Jordan was the winner of the Washington Post’s Eugene Meyer Award for her contributions to the paper.

Works

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Bibliography

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  • Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (30 May 2006). The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. Penguin Publishing Group.
  • Amanda Berry; Gina DeJesus; Mary Jordan; Kevin Sullivan (27 April 2015). Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-698-17895-3.
  • Michael Kranish; Marc Fisher (23 August 2016). Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power. Scribner. ISBN 978-1616205171. isbn:1501155784.
  • Mark Bailey (6 March 2018). Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1616205171.
  • Mary Jordan (16 June 2020). The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump. Simon & Schuster.
  • Kevin Sullivan; Mary Jordan (25 August 2020). "Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath." Scribner. ISBN 978-0821-5299-4.

Selected works from 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

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Selected works from Pulitzer Prize-finalist series on the difficulties facing women

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Poynter Institute interview with Sullivan and Jordan

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References

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  1. ^ Academy of Achievement. Director & Our Team. "Interviewers".
  2. ^ "Mary Jordan Nov. 9". Washington Post Live. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30.
  3. ^ "Mary Jordan's Nieman Fellowship Nov. 9". Nieman Foundation.
  4. ^ The Washington Post. "A British Diplomat's Mission Of Rescue".
  5. ^ The Washington Post. "This Is the Destiny of Girls".
  6. ^ "TRUMP ON TRIAL | Kirkus Reviews".
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