Jordan Chariton

Jordan Daniel Chariton (born September 20, 1986) is an American investigative reporter.

Chariton is the CEO of Status Coup, a progressive media outlet that features investigative and on-the-ground reporting on politics, corruption, the working class, social justice, and the environment.

Chariton's reporting has been published in The Guardian, VICE News, The Intercept, Detroit Metro Times, The Hill, Mediaite, and CNBC.com.

He also reported for TheWrap and TVNewser, Salon, and Mediaite, as well as the non-profit 92nd Street Y.

Chariton was born and raised in Long Island, New York, graduating from Massapequa High School in 2004.

He graduated from the University of Tampa in 2008, Majoring in Communications, with a Minor in Writing.

Chariton's early experience working in mainstream media spanned left-wing and right-wing news outlets.

His cable news background included Fox News, Fox Business and MSNBC.

Chariton began his professional career in news at Fox News in 2008.

He was initially booking guests on its live election themed web show The Strategy Room, after which he began producing segments and live shows.

In 2010, Chariton moved over to Fox Business as a guest booker and producer for “Freedom Watch,” hosted by Libertarian host Judge Andrew Napolitano.

In 2011, Chariton left Fox News and joined the MSNBC network as a guest booker for a variety of daytime programs.

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.

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.

As CAC producer, Chariton interviewed journalists, politicians, and think tank experts, and was nominated for a 2013 Webby Award.

In 2013, 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.

Chariton began freelance writing for Mediaite in 2013, a website focusing on politics and media.

His commentary covered media hypocrisy, presidential campaigns, gun violence in America, the military industrial complex, among other contemporary issues.

He also wrote about the growing social TV industry for another Mediabistro blog “Lost Remote.” Chariton saw the electronic news industry evolving and joined TVNewser, a Mediabistro blog focusing on the television news industry.

There, Chariton covered ratings, hiring, cable news coverage, and interviewed anchors and journalists from a variety of networks.

He wrote multiple articles about the transitioning of the medium, and the increasingly significant role that electronic media and social media had in contemporary news.

In 2014, Chariton joined LA-based entertainment trade website TheWrap as its media reporter.

At The Wrap, Chariton broke stories about CNN staffers’ complaints about the network's obsessive coverage of Donald Trump, MSNBC's executives shifting the network away from a Progressive identity, and "Legacy newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post's pivot to digital subscriptions."

Chariton was hired as the first ever on-the-ground reporter for the online Progressive commentary show The Young Turks.

He was hired to run TYT Politics YouTube channel, which he grew to 140,000 subscribers in his first year.

He is best known for covering (at the scene) the Flint water crisis, the protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and the DNC Wikileaks scandal as well as the Podesta emails.

He also covered the water crisis at Cape Fear, North Carolina.

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.

Chariton interviewed activist/Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon in 2016 for the Rebel HQ segment of TYT Politics.

The clip of her thoughts on Donald Trump was picked up by several media outlets, including the New York Daily News, Politico, and Entertainment Weekly.

Chariton became known for his interviews with voters, activists, working-class people, and community members rather than political pundits and campaign operatives.

He reported on the controversy involving Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile during the 2016 presidential election.

Chariton also grew acclaim for challenging supporters of Donald Trump, with several of his interviews going viral online.

His most memorable moment from the 2016 campaign trail was when he challenged Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Donna Brazile about her passing off questions for a CNN town hall to Hillary Clinton's campaign ahead of time.

Beyond the campaign, Chariton rose to notoriety for his on-the-ground coverage from North Dakota from indigenous protests at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (he took seven reporting trips there from August 2016 to February 2017).

At Standing Rock, 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.

In 2017, Chariton hosted a live town hall from Flint where he interviewed sick residents suffering from the toxic water they consumed.

The town hall was watched by hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Chariton also embarked on a “Disappearing Middle Class” reporting tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin where he interviewed struggling people and workers living paycheck to paycheck, homeless individuals, and political activists.

Chariton's coverage helped grow the TYT Politics YouTube channel to 140,000 subscribers in under a year.