Career
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.
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, The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Jordan has interviewed newsmakers including singer and songwriter Paul McCartney, Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Benjamín Arellano Félix, one of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins. She has written about injustices and discrimination against women including the exceedingly low conviction rate of rape in Britain and the many girls in India denied schooling solely because they were not born male.
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."
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 (Viking, 2015).
Jordan was part of the team that reported Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, a 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 (Scribner, 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." The paperback was updated to include the second Trump impeachment and was published in 2021 as Trump's Trials.
