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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Donald Trump Invites Supporter Onstage to Inspect His Hair, Mimics Spanish Accent
GOP frontrunner also blasts the New York Times for its story on his altercation with Univision’s Jorge Ramos
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Joe Scarborough Thanks MSNBC Chief Andy Lack for Cleaning Up Liberal Network
“Thank you Andy, thank you very much,” “Morning Joe” host says
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Why Donald Trump’s Fox News War Might Make Viewers Rage Against the Machine
“Fox’s approach is ‘we’re the grievance-filled underdog against the establishment; Trump is using Jiu-Jitsu to try and turn things against the network that invented it,” journalist Mark Feldstein tells TheWrap
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Donald Trump Reacts to WDBJ Shooting: ‘This Isn’t a Gun Problem, This Is a Mental Problem’ (Video)
“I am a very much 2nd Amendment person,” GOP frontrunner tells CNN’s Chris Cuomo
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Slain WDBJ Reporter’s Father Vows to ‘Shame’ Politicians Into Preventing ‘Crazy People’ From Getting Guns
“Next week, it isn’t going to be a story anymore and everybody is going to forget it,” Andy Parker says about making tighter gun control his new mission in life
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Al Sharpton Bumped to MSNBC Weekends: ‘I Wanted To Be Dr. Martin Luther King, Not Larry King’
“I’m very happy,” Sharpton says. “I wanted to be Dr. Martin Luther King, not Larry King”
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WDBJ Shooter Tells ABC News That Charleston Church Massacre Drove Him ‘Over the Top’
“My hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them,” Vester Flanagan wrote in 23-page memo sent to the network
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WDBJ TV News Shooter Faxed 23-Page Manifesto to ABC News Tuesday Night (Updated)
“I’ve been a human powder keg for a while … just waiting to go BOOM!!!!” wrote man identifying himself as Bryce Williams
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WDBJ TV News Shooter Suspect Dead (Updated)
Vester Flanagan dies in hospital after shooting two WDBJ journalists to death
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WDBJ TV News Shooter Rants About Victims on Twitter, Facebook (Graphic Photo)
Vester Flanagan’s Twitter account suspended after he posts picture of gun pointed at victim
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WDBJ TV News Shooter Identified as Former News Station Employee
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe says alleged shooter believed to be disgruntled station employee
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TV News Shooting Sparks Tightened Security for Local New York City Stations
NYPD has increased patrols outside local TV news networks in wake of shooting deaths of WDBJ reporter and photographer
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Is the 24/7 Media Echo Chamber Intimidating Student Journalists?
“One colleague told me, ‘I don’t need an editor, the Internet is my editor,’” USC professor Robert Hernandez tells TheWrap. “That’s just asking for trouble”
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TV News Reporter, Photographer Shot to Death on Air (Graphic Video)
WDBJ7’s Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward were doing live shot at water park when gunman opened fire; Ward’s fiancée saw horrifying scene from station control room
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Donald Trump Blasts ‘Ranting and Raving’ Jorge Ramos, Univision Anchor Slams ‘Out Of Line’ Trump (Video)
“It is extreme what he is saying about immigrants in this country…as journalists, are we supposed sit-down because he says so? This is not his country, this is our country,” Ramos says on CNN