About Andy Jordan
Andy Jordan is a New York-based Staff Reporter and Multimedia Producer for The Wall Street Journal using the “one-man-band” reporting method of enterprising, producing, shooting, reporting, and editing his own video stories. He (ok me, but doesn’t third person sound like I have a person who made this website other than me?) hits the road owning the editorial, logistical, and production aspects of reporting videos and multimedia projects. What does that mean? Well, what was once 6 or 7 jobs when I worked at CNN back in the day, is now just one job, and I do it. God love (save?) journalism! I’m equal parts editorial and production. That’s to say, I can get into the story, and then immerse myself with the technology of how best to tell that story. (Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, After Effects).
While at the Journal, I have covered technology, politics, the environment, and the economy on stories that have taken me to Germany, Turkey, Greece, China, Iceland, London, Bangkok, Davos, Spain and Portugal among other places. I also drove cross-country in search of Obama-era “green jobs” driving from New York to Santa Barbara. I have specialized in covering the democratization movement and the gift economy (the transformation of our economy from a top-down paradigm to flat and bottom-up). I also reported from much of the 2008 U.S. campaign trail. At The Journal, I also cover the culture of Technology, which includes my “Tech Diary” video column, where I look at the intersection of technology and human behavior. I also sometimes write for the Journal’s Technology blog, “Digits”. While reporting for the Journal one time, I got tazed… on purpose.
Prior to joining the Journal in 2007, I reported for the PBS science and technology program “Springboard”, produced out of KQED in San Francisco, where, among other subjects, I reported on The Science of Love and the search for self in the Digital Age.
I was also on staff at CNN for eight years, working as Producer, Anchor and Reporter for the TV network, based in Atlanta and San Francisco. My primary work at CNN was reporting on science and technology stories, including an in-depth series on NASA’s Space Shuttle program, where I went up into the launchpad with a shuttle on it (life highlight!). I also got to live with an Amish family for a week, chased tornadoes and went searching for clues to whatever happened to the Anasazi Indians.
I was also a Staff Producer and Reporter for the cable network, TechTV, based in San Francisco. While there, I reported on topics ranging from copyright and intellectual property to tongue splitting and innovations in urinals. I like finding the sublime in the ridiculous. The nut of storytelling lies in that place.
I was also based in Seoul, Korea for a year as a Producer and Consultant for KBS, The Korean Broadcasting System, a job that included reporting from the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas.
I also have a robust background in old media, including work as an Anchor at the CNN Radio Network. When I was not yet old enough to legally work, I was working behind a microphone at a local AM gospel radio station in downtown Atlanta. Most recently, I was an Executive Producer and Talk Show Host at the Air America Radio talk affiliate KQKE-AM, in San Francisco. I’ve also been News Director at WGMG-FM (where I was Jordan Andrews!) and reported news and announced at numerous radio stations, including WAEC-AM, WNIV-AM, WMSL-FM, WPUP-FM, WFOX-FM (Fox 97), WSTR-FM (Star 94) in Georgia and KZQZ-FM, and KNGY-FM (Energy 92.7) in California.
The name I used at Energy was “Dieter Jones”. Seriously.
I went to Emerson College in Boston, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The University of Georgia, with a degree in Comparative Literature and Ancient Greek. I added the Phi Beta Kappa part cuz that sounds impressive, but I really have had nothing to do with the organization whatsoever since I got my key. My post-graduate education has been robust with a few fellowships that were life-changing (apologies for the hyperbole). I was a Science Journalism Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where I got to sequence my own DNA and ponder green beer. I was also an Asia Pacific Journalism Fellow to Taiwan and Singapore through the East West Center. Through this, I buried myself in a rich tapestry of Asian economics, diplomacy, and religion. I was also fortunate enough to be a fellow in the Korea US Journalist Exchange Program (also through East West Center) , completing a period of study throughout South Korea and Hawaii in 2010. Andy Jordan (can I return to third person now?) was born in Tachikawa, Japan and grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia. He has lived in Atlanta, Athens, Boston, Seoul, San Francisco, and currently lives in New York. Oh, by the way, I did a whole prodigal journey to Tachikawa, when I was living in Korea and the hospital where I was born was turned into a park. It was bucolic and even more life-changing than nearly going to space.
Contact: andyjordan at aol dot com. on twitter at wsjandy .
Andy Jordan is a Multimedia Journalist based in New York. Contact him at andyjordan at aol dot com