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    Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered stories ranging from the White House to British politics to religious extremism in Pakistan. In 14 years abroad as a Post foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, Mexico City and London, she wrote from nearly 40 countries. She and her husband and colleague, Kevin Sullivan, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their series on the Mexican justice system. They were 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series of stories about discrimination against women around the world. A graduate of Georgetown University and Columbia University School of Journalism, Jordan was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She won a scholarship to study Irish poetry at Trinity College in Dublin and spent a year studying Spanish at Stanford University. She has taught journalism as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and is a frequent contributor on BBC television.

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Posted at 04:34 PM ET, 06/12/2012

Watergate figures, including burglars, tell their story

By Mary Jordan

For the first time ever, nearly a dozen central figures in the Watergate scandal gathered at the Watergate office building where a botched 1972 burglary, ordered by President Nixon, set in motion the scandal that changed American politics and journalism. Bud Krogh, the former head of the “The Plumbers,” the group that planned burglaries of private citizens considered leakers by Nixon, was one of those speaking at the Washington Post Live event. Krogh drew huge laughs from the crowd of 450 people: “It’s a lot easier to come into this building with valet parking. “ Click here to watch highlights.

By Mary Jordan  |  04:34 PM ET, 06/12/2012

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