{{short description|Irish journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Use Irish English|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Sandra Jordan | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Television journalist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Sandra Jordan''' is an Irish television journalist, best known for her investigative visits to many conflict zones around the world for the Channel 4 series ''Dispatches'' and ''Unreported World''.
She attended Sacred Heart Secondary School in Westport, County Mayo and in 1987 went on to National University of Ireland, Galway for a degree in English. Temping in journalism led her to the foreign news desk at ''The Observer'' in London, where she was promoted to assistant editor. However, the desk job did not suit her, and she moved into television, making documentaries in Latin America for Channel 4.<ref name=Mayo-1>{{cite news|author1=Aine Ryan|title=Interview: Sandra Jordan, director of Little Matador|url=http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12105:interview-sandra-jordan-director-of-little-matador&catid=48:nurturing&Itemid=141|accessdate=19 February 2015|publisher=The Mayo News|date=1 March 2011}}</ref>
In March 2003, Jordan was in the Gaza Strip reporting on the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.<ref name="Unreported World - Gaza, The Bullet And The Ballot Box">{{cite web|title=Unreported World - Gaza, The Bullet And The Ballot Box|url=http://documentaryheaven.com/gaza-the-bullet-and-the-ballot-box/|accessdate=15 March 2012}}</ref> She reported on Israeli violence against Palestinians, and interviewed local people and protesters from the International Solidarity Movement within two days of the death of American activist Rachel Corrie. She also covered the killings of British activist Tom Hurndall and filmmaker James Miller. The resulting documentary was aired in June 2003 on ''Dispatches'' titled "The Killing Zone".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU Dispatches: the killing zone], Channel 4, June 2003. Retrieved on YouTube, 13 December 2012.</ref>
As well as repeat visits to Gaza, the West Bank, Sri Lanka and Nepal between 2001 and 2007, she reported from Indian Kashmir, Thailand, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, El Salvador, Mexico, Haiti and the Paris riots of 2005. Jordan and her team repeatedly risked being caught in crossfire and other dangers.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3665681/Todays-TV-and-radio-choices.html Unreported World], TV choices in the ''Daily Telegraph'', 8 June 2007</ref>
In 2008 she married and returned to Ireland. In 2011 she completed work on her own documentary feature, ''Little Matador'', co-directed with Gabriel Range. The film follows the training of child bullfighters in Mexico.<ref name="Mayo-1" />
==See also==
* Jordan de Exeter, founder of the Jordan family in Mayo
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|2219115|Sandra Jordan}}Sandra Jordan Mayo *[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sandrajordan Sandra Jordan] profile page, list of reports for ''The Guardian''
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