Denise-Marie Ordway

Denise-Marie Ordway was managing editor of The Journalist’s Resource from 2016 to 2026 and a research reporter-editor from 2015 to 2016. Before that, she worked as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America, including the Orlando Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work also has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, Nieman Lab and The IRE Journal. She has received a multitude of national, regional and state-level journalism awards and, in 2013, was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for an investigative series she led that uncovered violent hazing and other problems at Florida A&M University. She was selected to be a Fellow of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism during the 2014-15 academic year. Ordway, who also wrote and sold a screenplay about abolitionist John Brown, has served on the Education Writers Association's board of directors since 2019. A proud community college alumna, Ordway has a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of North Florida and a master's degree in higher education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. You can reach her at [email protected].