[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[5] and the many girls in India denied schooling solely because they were not born male.

[6] 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).

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.

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".