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.
Experience:
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‘Today’ Show Host Wears Same Suit Every Day for a Year to Prove Point About Sexism (Video)
Nobody seemed to notice or care, providing superb evidence of TV’s double standard
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Sam Champion Blasts Morning Show ‘Hysteria’: It Needs More Actual News, Less Fluff
“Morning television is even getting to the point where I need a costume malfunction moment, it’s getting that much to a hysteria,” says former ‘Good Morning America’ meteorologist
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Bill Cosby Accuser Tells CNN’s Don Lemon: I Was ‘Terrified’ and ‘Manipulated’ (Video)
“There were several occasions I woke up in a very confused state, not in my clothes,” says Barbara Bowman
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Reveals She Had Abdominal Tumor During Fox News Return (Video)
“I was facing something that could potentially could have gone either way,” Hasselbeck reveals after undergoing surgery
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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Reacts to Criticism Over KKK Interview on Ferguson
“I knew some, even many of our viewers, would not like it” Hayes tells TheWrap
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Fox News Interview With Bin Laden Killer Scores Record Ratings
Part two of “The Man Who Killed Usama Bin Laden” draws 3,370,000 viewers and 586,000 25-54 demo viewers
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CNN Doubles Down on Three Original Series
Series from Anthony Bourdain, Lisa Ling and Mike Rowe renewed for additional seasons
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Amazon and Hachette End Nasty Dispute, Agree on New Deal
The online retail giant and book publisher sparred for months over e-book pricing
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First Look Media Exodus: John Cook Bolts ‘The Intercept’ for Gawker Return on Heels of Matt Taibbi Exit
Cook served as editor-in-chief of “The Intercept” for 7 months; returning to Gawker to oversee investigations
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CBS News Chief on Network’s New Digital Push, Launch of CBSN and What It All Means for the Future
“It’s not just like taking a television program and putting it on the web, and it’s not like all VOD where you have to work with it; it’s meant to be some place in between,” CBS News chief David Rhodes tells TheWrap for this week’s “Office With a View”
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Fox News’ Howard Kurtz Would Rather Watch His 9-Year-Old Than Ronan Farrow (Video)
“My 9-year-old daughter could’ve conducted a better interview with Jonathan Gruber,” Kurtz says about Ronan Farrow’s interview
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Stephen Colbert Predicts Future Political Star: Anti-Gay, Anti-Atheist Colorado Exorcist (Video)
“Now that the bruising campaign is over, Democrats should join Klingenschmitt in a reasonable discussion about whether or not Barack Obama is possessed by a demon,” Colbert says
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MSNBC Combines TV, Digital Teams as Part of Reorganization: Read Internal Memo
Staffers from both sides will work in the same newsroom, called “The Bridge,” beginning next week
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Jon Stewart Goes All Fashion Police on Obama’s ‘Hunger Games’ Outfit (Video)
“What the f*ck is he wearing?” Stewart says about President Obama’s purple outfit at the APEC conference in China
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Laura Ling Joins Discovery Digital Networks
The journalist once help captive by North Korea joins Discovery’s digital arm as Director of Development
