Jordan Chariton, Media Reporter, joins TheWrap from Mediabistro’s TVNewser and LostRemote. Before that, he worked inside the “belly of the beast,” spending four years working in cable news, at Fox News, Fox Business and MSNBC. He also spent almost two years as the digital producer at NYC’s legendary non-profit 92nd Street Y. When he’s not reading, writing, or engaging in deep, soulful conversation, Jordan is most likely taking in a movie, museum, restaurant, or binge watching Netflix. Follow him on Twitter @jordanchariton or reach him at jordan.chariton@thewrap.com.
Jordan Chariton
Experience:
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Ben Carson’s Campaign Surges After Controversial Muslim, Holocaust Comments
“He has not backed down,” GOP candidate’s business manager Armstrong Williams says
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Fox News’ Keith Ablow Is Reckless ‘Gun Ideologue’ for Holocaust Comments, Says Historian
“It would be nice if TV personalities took their responsibilities seriously,” American University history professor Leonard Steinhorn tells TheWrap
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Donald Trump Thinks Democratic Debate Will Tank Because He’s Not in It (Video)
GOP frontrunner says a person at CNN told him, “We have to put Donald Trump in this debate. We’re going to die with it”
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Fox’s Terry Bradshaw Blasts ‘Desperate’ Dallas Cowboys for Signing Domestic Abuser Greg Hardy (Video)
“This is wrong, we have no place for this… and I really, really, seriously hope that eventually we never have a place in the NFL for people who strike a woman,” NFL legend says
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BuzzFeed Launches Native Political Video Ads for 2016 Campaign
Site says its huge millennial readership has created “huge demand for political and advocacy groups to tap into that audience”
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President Obama Calls Hillary Clinton’s Email Controversy ‘Ginned Up’ (Video)
In contentious interview with “60 Minutes,” the president also called Donald Trump a “classic reality TV character”
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Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian Found Guilty in Iran Espionage Case
Iran Bureau Chief’s sentence is unknown; paper’s editor Marty Baron calls conviction “an outrageous injustice” and “contemptible”
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Sam Champion to Host Weekly Primetime Show on The Weather Channel (Exclusive)
Self-proclaimed weather nerd tells TheWrap he has no regrets about leaving ABC: “I didn’t leave Good Morning America to do a morning show, I mean why would I do that?”
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Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian Sentenced in Iran Espionage Case
Details of verdict unknown for newspaper’s Iran bureau chief who’s been imprisoned on espionage charges for over a year
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Gawker Executive Editor Demands Writers Cut ‘Facebook Viral Garbage,’ Work Faster as Traffic Stalls
John Cook tells staff he’s seeing work that makes “no attempt to add new information, research, reporting, or ideas to the topics they address”
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Donald Trump Continues War Against ‘Scum’ at Politico
“I was so happy when I heard that Politico, one of the most dishonest political outlets, is losing a fortune,” GOP frontrunner tweets
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Ben Carson Calls Criticism of His Holocaust Gun Comments ‘Total Foolishness’ (Video)
After suggesting less Jews would have died during Holocaust if armed, former neurosurgeon doubles down on opinion and says he’s “happy to discuss that in depth with anybody”
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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
“It’s a prize that crowns more than two years of efforts deployed by the Quartet when the country was in danger on all fronts,” Tunisian General Labour Union leader says
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‘Cosby Show’s’ Malcolm-Jamal Warner Sounds Off on ‘Tarnished’ Legacy of Sitcom
“In a few generations the Huxtables will have been just a fairy tale,” the man who played Bill Cosby’s son says
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Fox News ‘Very Difficult’ for Black Staffers, Former NABJ President Says (Updated)
“Especially when you have all of the hit pieces that are done on Obama,” former National Association of Black Journalists president Bob Butler tells TheWrap