and environmental activists and was one of the few national journalists to cover violent standoffs between local police and protesters. In 2017, Chariton hosted a live town hall from Flint where he interviewed sick residents suffering from the toxic water they consumed. The town hall was watched by hundreds of thousands of viewers. Chariton also embarked on a “Disappearing Middle Class” reporting tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin where he interviewed struggling people and workers living paycheck to paycheck, homeless individuals, and political activists. Chariton’s coverage helped grow the TYT Politics YouTube channel to 140,000 subscribers in under a year. 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 aquitted for shooting and killing Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old African American man. After the arrest, on misdemeanor charges of trespassing, Cenk Uygur tweeted to demand the immediate release of Chariton and Bayliss and to declare that the arrest was a violation of the First Amendment and a clear attack on the freedom of the press. As Independent Media Owner Chariton launched his own YouTube channel and website in February 2018, that focused on investigative reporting. The channel and website were under an umbrella grouping called Jordan Chariton Reports. 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. That project morphed into a Progressive independent investigative reporting network and media outlet, called Status Coup. It was on Status Coup, where he has broken numerous high-profile stories, and captured iconic video images that have been re-broadcast by the major media outlets. Status Coup In 2018, Jordan Chariton co-founded with Jenn Dize the Progressive independent investigative reporting network and media outlet, called Status Coup, the play-on-words to pull off a journalistic “coup” of the Status quo. It focuses on in-field and investigative reporting around the country from both internal and external reporters. 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. In 2021, Dize went on to do her own personal projects on Courage News, while Chariton continued