Don F. Jordan

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Don Franklin Jordan (born February 13, 1941 in New York City ) is an American journalist .

Don F. Jordan was born in New York as the son of the German diplomat Henry Paul Jordan . He studied business administration at the University of Miami . From 1966 he worked in Bonn as a correspondent for CBS News , Voice of America and The Guardian, among others . In 1977 he took on a managerial role in the press department of a major German bank. Since 1990 he has been a freelance correspondent for radio and TV broadcasters and publications in North America, England and Switzerland. At the end of 1990 he was elected to the board of directors of the Association of the Foreign Press as the successor to Horst Schäfer .

Jordan worked from 1994 to 2001 as a presenter for Deutsche Welle-TV and as a commentator for various broadcasters. He also appears as a speaker and is a frequent guest on talk shows and journalists' panels. In 2007 he was awarded the Lucius D. Clay Medal in Bamberg . In 2013 he received the media prize of the Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft. In 1996 Don F. Jordan played an American drug lord in Dieter Wedel's five-part television film Der Schattenmann .

Don F. Jordan has been the anniversary ambassador of the v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enlighteners in the fight for democracy, freedom and against prejudice: Award for Don F. Jordan. (No longer available online.) Association of German-American Clubs, October 9, 2007, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on February 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vdac.de
  2. ↑ "US-Boy" Don Jordan honored. Frankfurter Neue Presse, September 7, 2013, accessed on February 12, 2014 .
  3. ^ Don F. Jordan | Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 26, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bethel.de

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SURNAME Jordan, Don F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Don Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City