[3] He retired from The Age in June 2017 at the rank of national political editor,[2] the position he held since 2013,[4] after working for the newspaper for 37 years.
[1][3] Gordon also worked for a time as a New York correspondent for The Herald in the late 1980s and later as national political editor for The Australian from 1994 to 1998.
[1][4] Gordon won a Walkley Award in 2017 for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism 2017.
[6][1] He died in February 2018, at the age of 62, from a heart attack while taking part in an ocean swim at Cowes in Phillip Island, Victoria.
[1][7] His death prompted messages of sympathy from Tony Wright (associate editor of The Age), Greg Hywood (Fairfax Media chief executive) and former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.