1. Jordan Daniel Chariton was born on September 20,1986 and is an American investigative reporter.
46 Facts About Jordan Chariton
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Jordan Chariton's reporting has been published in The Guardian, VICE News, The Intercept, Detroit Metro Times, The Hill, Mediaite, and CNBC.
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Jordan Chariton previously worked for digital news network The Young Turks, where he covered the 2016 presidential election, the protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and notably the Flint water crisis.
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Jordan Chariton was born and raised in Long Island, New York, graduating from Massapequa High School in 2004.
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Jordan Chariton graduated from the University of Tampa in 2008, Majoring in Communications, with a Minor in Writing.
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Jordan Chariton began his professional career in news at Fox News in 2008.
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Jordan Chariton was initially booking guests on its live election-themed web show The Strategy Room, after which he began producing segments and live shows.
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In 2011, Jordan Chariton left Fox News and joined the MSNBC network as a guest booker for a variety of daytime programs.
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Jordan Chariton primarily focused on political pundits and guests providing analysis and commentary on the 2012 presidential campaign, as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement as it was occurring.
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Jordan Chariton left MSNBC in 2012 for the NYC non-profit 92nd Street Y as a digital producer for its Campaign for the American Conversation video series.
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In 2013, Jordan Chariton moved from the digital to the event side of 92Y, helping book guests for 92Y's lecture series such as Obama's 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe.
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Jordan Chariton began freelance writing for Mediaite in 2013, a website focusing on politics and media.
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Jordan Chariton's commentary covered media hypocrisy, presidential campaigns, gun violence in America, the military industrial complex, among other contemporary issues.
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Jordan Chariton wrote multiple articles about the transitioning of the medium, and the increasingly significant role that electronic media and social media had in contemporary news.
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In 2014, Jordan Chariton joined LA-based entertainment trade website TheWrap as its media reporter.
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Jordan Chariton was hired as the first-ever on-the-ground reporter for the online Progressive commentary show The Young Turks.
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Jordan Chariton was hired to run TYT Politics YouTube channel, which he grew to 140,000 subscribers in his first year.
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Jordan Chariton is best known for covering the Flint water crisis, the protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and the DNC Wikileaks scandal as well as the Podesta emails.
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Jordan Chariton covered the water crisis at Cape Fear, North Carolina.
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Jordan Chariton became known for his interviews with voters, activists, working-class people, and community members rather than political pundits and campaign operatives.
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Jordan Chariton reported on the controversy involving Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile during the 2016 presidential election.
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Jordan Chariton grew acclaim for challenging supporters of Donald Trump, with several of his interviews going viral online.
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Beyond the campaign, Jordan Chariton rose to notoriety for his on-the-ground coverage from North Dakota from indigenous protests at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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At Standing Rock, Jordan Chariton interviewed hundreds of indigenous people and environmental activists and was one of the few national journalists to cover violent standoffs between local police and protesters.
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In 2017, Jordan Chariton hosted a live town hall meeting from Flint where he interviewed sick residents suffering from the toxic water they consumed.
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Jordan Chariton's coverage helped grow the TYT Politics YouTube channel to 140,000 subscribers in under a year.
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Jordan Chariton launched his own YouTube channel and website in February 2018, that focused on investigative reporting.
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In 2021, Dize went on to do her own personal projects on Courage News, while Jordan Chariton continued in his role as CEO and reporter.
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For Status Coup, Jordan Chariton has reported extensively in Flint Michigan continuing to cover the ongoing water crisis and government cover-up, along with on-the-ground coverage that has made national news headlines.
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Jordan Chariton has made over 18 trips to Flint to investigate and report on the Flint Water Crisis.
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Jordan Chariton's reports have appeared in the Detroit Metro Times, TheHill.
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Jordan Chariton was interviewed by Detroit television station WDIV Local 4, on their Flashpoint program.
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In December 2020, Jordan Chariton broke a story for The Intercept about the 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses Primary election investigation.
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Jordan Chariton's reporting revealed how the Democratic National Committee was not cooperating with investigations into the questionable coding and their access to raw data and vote results.
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The footage was restored by YouTube after Jordan Chariton protested the move on Twitter.
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Jordan Chariton said the situation made him angry and perplexed that YouTube could not distinguish between footage documenting a historical event and people purposefully spreading misinformation regarding the 2020 US election.
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Jordan Chariton stated "it is corporate censorship by YouTube" aimed at appeasing "corporate advertisers".
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Jordan Chariton has shifted his previous stance supporting the removal of outlets for disseminating conspiracy theories to one having the "right" to say controversial views or information "dressed up as journalism" as long as calls for violence are not made.
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Jordan Chariton opposes Big Tech platforms "making decisions to avoid regulation determining through their algorithm what is and isn't trustworthy news".
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Jordan Chariton has covered the resurgence of the American labor movement, focusing on union drives and worker strikes around the country.
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In 2020 and 2021, Jordan Chariton covered the union drive of Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, interviewing workers at the warehouse many times and breaking stories on Amazon's union busting.
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Jordan Chariton was in Buffalo, NY, for the Buffalo Starbucks' historic union campaign and victory, interviewing workers on-the-ground in Buffalo ahead of their victory.
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Jordan Chariton covered the historic, and successful, strike waged by John Deere workers, interviewing workers at picket lines in Iowa and Illinois.
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Jordan Chariton has reported on strikes launched by coal miners in Alabama, Frito Lay workers in Kansas, and Nabisco workers in Oregon, which was cited and linked to by CBS News.
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The accusation impacted Jordan Chariton's standing at The Young Turks, from which he was put on leave following the article.
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Jordan Chariton said he was stunned at the accusation, and two eyewitnesses came forward backing up Jordan Chariton's account.