Draft:Jordan Gass-Pooré

Jordan Gass-Pooré
Occupationjournalist
Alma materTexas State University (BA), City, University London (MA)

Jordan Gass-Pooré is an American investigative journalist and podcast producer. She is best known for producing the Sounds Like Hate podcast for the Southern Poverty Law Center[1] and founding the Hazard NJ podcast.[2][3]

Career

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Jordan Gass-Pooré has produced work for Mother Jones,[4] the Southern Poverty Law Center[5] and CNN[6], including CNN's award-wining[7] Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta.[8][9] She produced and hosted[10] Sounds Like Hate, the Southern Poverty Law Center's podcast[11]. She executive produced the second season of Queens Memory Project Podcast[12] which won the Third Coast International Audio Festival Impact Award[13][14]. She ran a show about Texas independent films on KTSW 89.9.[15]

In 2022, Gass-Pooré created, produced and hosts[16][17] Hazard NJ with NJ Spotlight News. Hazard NJ is an investigative podcast covering the ways that climate change and extreme weather impact Superfund sites in New Jersey[18][19] and the first podcast to be produced by NJ Spotlight News.[20][21] She is a Pulitzer grantee.[22]

Gass-Pooré has contributed to numerous publications and was an Investigative Reporters & Editors 2021 Freelance Fellow.[23] She also is a co-founder of Local Switchboard[24][25], through which she speaks and runs training on the topic of podcasting.[26] She was the editor on the Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association) winning podcast Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist at WHYY.[27][28] She was the producer on the episode of podcast What Does It Profit that won the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts' w3 Gold Award for Individual Episodes & Specials.[29]

Personal life

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Gass-Pooré was raised in Texas[30] and attended Texas State University.[31] She later studied journalism at City, University London where she founded one of its student media outlets Carrot Radio.[32] She is currently based in New York City.[33]

References

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  1. ^ "'My Family Didn't Talk About This': A Podcaster Explores Her Confederate Roots". Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  2. ^ "Hazard NJ: Why examine climate change and toxic sites?". Thirteen. Archived from the original on July 26, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
  3. ^ "Science Friday: New Jersey's Lenape Nation Fights Ford's Toxic Legacy". Archived from the original on September 16, 2022. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  4. ^ "Divided by a common language, with Mother Jones' Jordan Gass-Poore'". Freelance Pod.
  5. ^ "234 Jordan Gass-Poore' - Going Down the Rabbit Hole". Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  6. ^ ""A Constant in a Sea of Change": Podcast Host Jordan Gass-Poore' on Her Girls Write Now Journey". The Webby Awards. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  7. ^ "Webby Winner, Honoree: Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction with Dr. Sanjay Gupta". The Webby Awards. Archived from the original on 2022-12-07. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  8. ^ "Mass Comm Week 2021: Jordan Gass-poore As A CNN Podcast Producer And Freelance Journalist". KTSW. Archived from the original on July 17, 2022. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  9. ^ "CNN Profiles - Jordan Gass-Poore' - Producer, CNN Audio - CNN". CNN. Archived from the original on 2022-11-30. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  10. ^ "IMDB - Sounds Like Hate". IMDB. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  11. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Part 1: 'Hate in the Homeland' growing, crimes not reported to FBI". WTAE. 2021-05-11. Archived from the original on 2022-12-02. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  12. ^ "Queens News: Queens Memory Podcast preserves the history of COVID's impact". Queens Daily Eagle. 2020-09-24. Archived from the original on 2022-04-06. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  13. ^ "Third Coast Producers Index: Jordan Gass-Pooré". 2023-05-07. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  14. ^ "from Queens Public Library/Queens Memory Project: INTERSECTION". 2021 TC/RHDF Awards. Archived from the original on 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  15. ^ "Mass Comm Week 2021: Jordan Gass-Poore as a CNN Podcast Producer and Freelance Journalist". KTSW 89.9. 2021-10-23. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  16. ^ "Mentor Jordan Gass-Poore' Uncovers Environmental Threats in "Hazard NJ"". Girls Write Now. 2022-06-30. Archived from the original on 2022-12-07. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  17. ^ "#SEJSpotlight: Jordan Gass-Pooré, Freelance Journalist and Podcast Producer". SEJ. 2022-07-22. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  18. ^ "Hazard NJ: Why examine climate change's effects on toxic sites?". NJ Spotlight News. Archived from the original on 2022-12-31. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  19. ^ "New podcast explores how climate change threatens NJ's toxic Superfund sites". WNYC. Archived from the original on 2022-07-26. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  20. ^ "Press Releases: NJ PBS News Division Produces First Podcast Series, Hazard NJ, Exploring How Climate Change Could Impact Garden State Superfund Sites". Insider NJ. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  21. ^ "REWIND: Highlighting the Best of Hazard NJ (So Far)". Peril & Promise. 2022-09-21. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  22. ^ "Jordan Gass-Pooré". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  23. ^ "Three journalists awarded 2021 IRE Freelance Fellowship". Investigative Reporters & Editors. 2022-01-20. Archived from the original on 2022-07-26. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  24. ^ "Live w/ Jordan Gass-Poore', Co-founder, Local Switchboard NYC". Outlier Podcast Festival.
  25. ^ "Underrepresented Voices: Diversity Matters: Podcast Spotlight". EarBuds Podcast Collective. Archived from the original on 2021-05-30. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  26. ^ "Making an Impact in the Community, One WordCamp at a Time". Pantheon. Archived from the original on 2023-04-14. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  27. ^ "WHYY News wins national Edward R. Murrow Award for 'Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist' podcast". WHYY. Archived from the original on 2023-11-14. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  28. ^ "Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist credits". WHYY. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  29. ^ "What Does it Profit Podcast Wins Prestigious W3 Award!". Georgetown University Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  30. ^ "72. The Fight For Reproductive Rights". Interstates & Heartbreak. 2021-10-31. Archived from the original on 2023-05-07. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  31. ^ "Mass Comm Week 2021: Jordan Gass-Poore as a CNN Podcast Producer and Freelance Journalist". KTSW 89.9. 2021-10-23. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  32. ^ "Carrot Radio to go "On Air" soon". City Students' Union. Archived from the original on 2023-04-04.
  33. ^ "Jordan Gass-Poore'". NJ Spotlight News.


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