Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

He is the recipient of four Emmy Awards two Peabody Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Award. However U. On February 11 2005 Jordan resigned to "prevent CNN from being unfairly tarniEason Jordand by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ONE Campaign. ". Jordan serves on the leadership council of the Committee to Protect Journalists the North America board of the International News Safety Institute the board of directors of the Fugees Family and the advisory board of Peacetree Productions.