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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Amazon Blasts New York Times’ Failure to Vet Sources: ‘No Defensible Explanation’
“The bottom line is the New York Times chose not to fact-check or vet its most important on-the-record sources, despite working on the story for six months,” Jay Carney writes
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Joe Biden to Enter Presidential Race
“Three sources close to @VP telling me he’s expected to announce he is running,” chief White House correspondent Ed Henry tweets
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New York Times Fires Back at Amazon’s Scathing Rebuttal of Workplace Takedown
Editor Dean Baquet disputed Amazon’s rebuttal, arguing that it didn’t “contradict what the former employees said in our story”
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Amazon Tears Apart New York Times’ Takedown Piece, Says Main Source Was Fired for Fraud
“Had the reporters checked their facts, the story they published would have been a lot less sensational, a lot more balanced, and, let’s be honest, a lot more boring,” Amazon senior VP Jay Carney writes
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Washington Post Managing Editor Kevin Merida Leaves for ESPN
“I expect there is not a person in our newsroom, or in our entire organization, who is not heartbroken over this decision,” executive editor Marty Baron writes
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NFL Network Interviews Player as Naked Teammates Stand Behind Him (Video)
“What an interview… it’s amazing,” network host says after colleague conducts locker room interview
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Lamar Odom’s Belongings Stolen While Unconscious at Brothel
“I don’t know if I got conned… when this all shakes out, this a shady motherf–ker. I didn’t recognize him,” Love Ranch owner Dennis Hof says
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Glenn Greenwald Rips Jeb Bush for 9/11 Tweet
“The Intercept” reporter goes after GOP candidate for claiming his brother kept America safe
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Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Announces Larger Twitter Stake Than Jack Dorsey
“Good job @twitter, @twittermoments innovation, @jack CEO, leaner, more focused. Glad I bought 4% past few months,” former Microsoft CEO tweets
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Boston Globe Lays Off Two Dozen Staffers
Additional 17 employees accept buyouts from newspaper; “There were no good choices to be made today — only necessary ones,” editor Brian McGrory writes
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CNBC Caves to Donald Trump, Ben Carson’s Debate Demands
Business network agrees to top GOP candidates’ requirement that debate be two hours and include opening and closing statements
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Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro Sued for Robert Durst Tell-All That ‘Aggrandized’ and Fudged Facts (Updated)
Pirro wrote book with “little regard for truth and accuracy” and directed her collaborator to “describe events and circumstances that never occurred”
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Fired ‘View’ Producer Sues ‘Bully’ Rosie O’Donnell Over Fears of Being ‘Assaulted’
Former senior producer Jennifer Shepard-Brookman says she was targeted for shifting coverage of journalist James Foley’s beheading to co-host Whoopi Goldberg
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Ex-CIA Agent Takes Aim at ‘Celebrity F–kers’ Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald After Drone Leak
Mike Baker tells TheWrap journalists exposing classified information is “misguided bullshit”
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Fox News Guest Wayne Simmons Arrested for Lying About CIA Service
“He was never employed by Fox or paid by the network,” Fox spokesperson tells TheWrap about Wayne Simmons
