Chariton is the CEO of Status Coup, a progressive media outlet that features investigative and on-the-ground reporting on politics, corruption, the working class, social justice, and the environment.

Chariton previously worked for digital news network The Young Turks, where he covered the 2016 presidential election,[1][2] the protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota,[3] and notably the Flint water crisis.

Chariton primarily focused on political pundits and guests providing analysis and commentary on the 2012 presidential campaign, as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement as it was occurring.

[9] He is best known for covering (at the scene) the Flint water crisis,[4] the protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and the DNC Wikileaks scandal[12] as well as the Podesta emails.

At Standing Rock, Chariton interviewed hundreds of indigenous people and environmental activists and was one of the few national journalists to cover violent standoffs between local police and protesters.

In October 2017, Chariton and The Young Turks cameraman Ty Bayliss were arrested in St. Louis while covering Black Lives Matter protests after police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted for shooting and killing Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old African American man.

As part of Jordan Chariton Reports, on May 27, 2018, he released an investigative piece on TruthDig showing that the science and data used to declare the water safe in Flint, Michigan was suspect, which was later featured on May 31, 2018, on the Thom Hartmann Program.

Chariton and Dize reported on Flint, the 2020 elections, Nina Turner's Congressional Primary, the MAGA movement, Black Lives Matter protests, and the Steven Donziger incarceration.

[22] For Status Coup, Chariton has reported extensively in Flint Michigan continuing to cover the ongoing water crisis and government cover-up, along with on-the-ground coverage that has made national news headlines.

In 2020 and 2021, in a publishing collaboration with VICE News, The Intercept, and The Guardian, Chariton's Status Coup broke four significant investigative stories on the Flint water cover-up in those outlets.

One of those stories, which Status Coup's Chariton and Dize co-published with The Intercept and Detroit Metro Times, revealed top officials' part of ex-Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's administration had their phones "wiped clean" shortly before the launch of the Flint water criminal investigation.

In response to the story, Congressional House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Carolyn Maloney issued a statement condemning Governor Snyder for his "choice to put money over the lives of the children in Flint."

Sources with the Congressional Oversight committee told Status Coup News it would be investigating the potential destruction of evidence by top Snyder administration officials revealed in the story.

On April 16, 2020, evidence of corruption and a cover-up in the Flint Water Crisis by former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and his “fixer” Rich Baird was exposed in an article published by Vice News.

[29] In January 2022, Chariton and longtime Detroit reporter Charlie LeDuff revealed that, in 2019, Democratic attorney general Dana Nessel stopped pursuing credible racketeering (RICO) charges against some people behind the apparent Flint water bond deal financial fraud that the Republican AG Bill Schuette's team had investigated.

His reporting revealed how the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was not cooperating with investigations into the questionable coding and their access to raw data and vote results.

[34] YouTube removed a Status Coup livestream of a peaceful Second Amendment rally in January 2021 after the online platform alleged the footage was a violation of its firearms policy.

[36][37][35] Chariton said the situation made him angry and perplexed that YouTube could not distinguish between footage documenting a historical event and people purposefully spreading misinformation regarding the 2020 US election.

[36][37] Chariton has shifted his previous stance supporting the removal of outlets for disseminating conspiracy theories to one having the "right" to say controversial views or information "dressed up as journalism" as long as calls for violence are not made.

[citation needed] HuffPost, which did not vet the blog post before publishing it, took it down within 24 hours, and Chiakulas later walked back the accusation, saying: "The reasons I wrote the story are hard to explain — the circumstances around which it were written are complicated...I rushed out that article and was thrust into the middle of this.