Eason Jordan

Eason Jordan is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Praedict, a war zone-focused company providing customized and up-to-the-minute news, insights, and safety tips to those in harm's way and their employers.

Prior to launching Praedict, Jordan worked for 23 years with CNN, where he rose through the ranks to become the network's Chief News Executive and President of Newsgathering and International Networks. Jordan oversaw CNN's news coverage, global expansion, and international relations. He orchestrated CNN's award-winning reporting of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia, and Somalia. He also directed CNN's coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. He traveled around the world on behalf of CNN and reported on-air from Iraq, North Korea, and elsewhere. After two of his CNN colleagues were killed by insurgents in Iraq in 2004, Jordan co-founded and co-chaired the Iraq News Safety Group, and on behalf of the Group met senior U.S.and Iraqi officials to address the safety concerns of news organizations whose journalists report from Iraq.

Jordan's journalistic honors include Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Headliner Awards, ACE Awards, The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, The Vanguard Award, the Livingston Award, and the first Charles Weltner Freedom of Information Award.

Jordan has written op-ed articles that appeared in dozens of newspapers including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. His exclusive reporting from North Korea in 1997 on the famine there appeared in Time magazine.

Jordan's university lectures include appearances at Harvard, Columbia University, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, Northwestern, Emory University, and Georgia Tech. Jordan has participated in public forums and debates across the United Stations and in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Mideast. He has made guest appearances on PBS, NPR, the BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Israeli TV, Chinese TV, Indian TV, Pakistani TV, TV Asahi, and Fuji TV.

He attended Georgia State University and DeKalb College.

Jordan serves on the Advisory Board of the International News Safety Institute and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce, and the ONE Campaign.