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All the guidance published on this site was written by our Founder, Michael J. Jordan. His skills, strategies & storytelling were honed as a freelance Foreign Correspondent, reporting from Eastern Europe, Central Asia & Southern Africa. He's also been a Visiting Professor of International Journalism, teaching students and training professionals on four continents.

For a sampling of Jordan's own Journalism, before focusing on Global Communications, he produced the following reportage while stationed in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho - documenting what happened before and after a 2014 coup-attempt:

(March 2012) JordanInk: Semonkong Falls Postcard (Photo Essay)

(4/2012) Christian Science Monitor: Bishop Tutu Urges Peace in Upcoming Lesotho Elections

(June 2012) Christian Science Monitor: Democracy 101: Tiny Lesotho Holds Peaceful Elections

(June 2012) Global Post: Lesotho Leads Southern Africa in Democracy

(July 2014) The Lesotho Times: Basotho on the Brink - and Dangerously in Denial

(Aug. 2014) CNN: Lesotho Prime Minister Alleges Army Coup Attempt, Forced into Hiding

(Sept. 2014) CSMonitor: Why Attempted Coup in Lesotho Presents Regional Dilemma

(Sept. 2014) BBC World Service: “During the Night, Several Shots Rang Out” (Audio)

(Sept. 2014) AFP: Zuma in Bid to Rescue Lesotho Peace Deal

(Sept. 2014) China’s Xinhua: News Analysis: Amid Lesotho's Political Crisis, No Easy Solutions

(Sept. 2014) The Mantle: One Morning in African Diplomacy (Photo Essay)

(Sept. 2014) AFP: Lesotho Police and Military in Early-Morning Shootout

(Sept. 2014) The Mantle: Explaining the Lesotho Crisis (Video)

(Sept. 2014) Lesotho’s Sunday Express: Prince Seeiso Calls for More Influential Role for King

(Nov. 2014) AFP: Lesotho Hunts Foreign "Mercenaries"; Fears Assassination Plot (Plus photos)

(Dec. 2014) South Africa’s Mail & Guardian: A Journalist on Trial (Intimidating media - like me!)

(Dec. 2014) South Africa’s Mail & Guardian: Lesotho Wrestles With Corruption

(Jan. 2015) South Africa’s Daily Maverick: Lesotho’s Toothless Watchdog

(Feb. 2015) Mail & Guardian: Climate of Uncertainty and Fear Haunt Upcoming Lesotho Poll

(Feb. 2015) Mail & Guardian: Ominous Rumblings from Lesotho's Army Ahead of Elections

(Feb. 2015) Foreign Policy magazine: Dispatch: The Mountain Kingdom, On the Brink

(March 2015) South Africa’s Daily Maverick: Op-Ed: Lesotho’s Continuing Criminal Cover-up

(July 2015) SA’s Daily Maverick: Op-Ed: Assassination in Lesotho – Blood on SADC’s Hands, Too