Jacquie Jordan

Jacquie Jordan is a multiple Emmy-nominated film and television producer who has produced nearly ten thousand television segments over the span of a fifteen-year career. [Mackacher, M: "Your Turn on TV?," Daily Breeze, March 26, 2006.] She spent three years as the co-executive producer of AMC's "Sunday Morning Shootout", a weekly film industry talk show hosted by "Variety" magazine’s Editor-in-chief Peter Bart and ex-Sony chairman Peter Guber. [Gschwandtner, Lisa: "Starring You," Selling Power Magazine, May 2006] Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America.

Jordan became a media entrepreneur with the July 2000 launch of Jacquie Jordan Inc., a media consultancy company specializing in television producing/networking seminars and the development of individual media brands. In 2002, Jacquie Jordan Inc. spun off a sister company, TVGuestpert, which develops television personalities and connects them with producers looking for established media guests and commentators. The company also works with clients to develop their own content across a variety of media, from DVDs to books. [Beveridge, Dawn: "Cracking the Glass Ceiling," Feedback Magazine, Sept/Oct, 2006.]

Early life

Jordan grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.A. in Communications and a Minor in Theater. [“Waiting for Jimmy Smits to Call,” University of Delware Messenger, Volume 9, number 3, 2000 [www.udel.edu/PR/Messenger/00/3/waiting.html] ] She started her media career as a local New Jersey disc jockey for WSUS and as news reporter for WNNJ-FM and AM. She later moved on to a position as an on-air reporter for WMBC-TV in the NY ADI market and hosted several public affairs programs.

Career

By the age of 24, Jordan sold her first television program, a syndicated nightly news format, by pitching to several New Jersey cable stations. Her skills at networking and pitching would later develop into Jacquie Jordan Inc, a media consultancy firm and production company which offers clients a wide array of services and seminars on topics ranging from branding to promotion, marketing and development of programming and media profile building. [ibid.] [Beveridge, Dawn: "Cracking the Glass Ceiling," Feedback Magazine, Sept/Oct, 2006.]

Jordan has produced television programming for media mainstays Geraldo Rivera, Maury Povitch, Donny and Marie Osmond, Bob Saget, Montel Williams and Cybill Shepherd. She had produced pilots and shows for Buena Vista, Sony, Tribune, Twentieth Television and Telepictures.

unday Morning Shootout

In 2003, Jordan was tapped as co-executive producer for AMC’s film industry talk show SUNDAY MORNING SHOOTOUT, hosted by Peter Bart and Peter Guber. Celebrity and Industry guests included Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Vince Vaughn, Danny Devito, Sherry Lansing, Terry Semel and Dustin Hoffman. Jordan ran the show for its first three years. [Martin, Denise: "TV Land lands a "Big Break"," Variety Magazine, Vreality TV, October 26, 2005.]

In 2005, as executive producer, Jordan launched SQUARE-OFF, a Sunday Morning Shooutout style format for the TV Guide Network that focused on the television and cable industry. The show was hosted by Andy Wallenstien of the Hollywood Reporter and Brian Lowry, a critic for Variety. [Martin, Denise: "TV Insiders to "square off"," Variety Magazine, Vpilotwatch, March 26, 2006.]

Media Consultancy

Jacquie Jordan Inc

Launched in 2000 as an umbrella company for several Jordan ventures: a media consultancy firm designed to help budding television personalities develop their careers and learn how to pitch themselves to television producers, a cross-platform media development company, as well as a film and television production company. [Miller, Dawn: "Q/A with a Career Woman," Entertainment Today, July 26th, 2006.] The media consultancy arm of Jacquie Jordan Inc develops clients’ individual brands, on-camera skills, professional profiles, demo reels, and press kits. [Beveridge, Dawn: "Cracking the Glass Ceiling," Feedback Magazine, Sept/Oct, 2006.]

TVguestpert

In 2002, Jacquie Jordan Inc spun off TVGuestpert, an online media consultancy company that functions as a bridge between a roster of television personalities and television producers across the nation. The company also develops nascent television talent and its consultancy services are available to anyone interested in a media career. [The Gregory Mantell Show: "Jacquie Jordan: Get on TV!," July 27, 2006.]

Media Seminars and Philanthropy

Via Jacquie Jordan Inc, Jordan has become a nationally recognized Media Consultancy Seminar Leader. Her company also offers charitable support to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, The Montel Williams MS Foundation, Project Cuddle, Healing the Children of California and the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation.

Printed Media

In 2006, Jordan wrote the book "Get on TV! : The Insider’s Guide to Pitching the Producers and Promotion Yourself" (published by Sourcebooks, Inc). [Jordan, J: "Get on TV! : The Insider’s Guide to Pitching the Producers and Promotion Yourself" Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006.] The nationally distributed book takes Jordan’s role as a television producer and a media consultant to printed format. [Gschwandtner, Lisa: "Starring You," Selling Power Magazine, May 2006.] [Moran, Gwen: "Quick Pick," Entrepeneur Magazine, July, 2006.]

References

External links

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* [http://www.sourcebooks.com Sourcebooks Inc Homepage]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2623069201365658135 The Gregory Mantell Show - Jacquie Jordan: Get on TV!]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZUky_Lgag The Gregory Mantell Show - Jacquie Jordan: Will TV and the Internet Merge?]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrRjTJX7NTc The Gregory Mantell Show - Jacqie Jordan: Stop Stepping on Your Own Toes]
* [http://www.bradleyquick.com/subjects/PositiveAction.htm Radio Show #177, Hour 2 with Jacquie Jordan]
* [http://www.montelms.org The Montel Williams MS Foundation]
* [http://www.projectcuddle.org/default.asp Project Cuddle]
* [http://www.healingthechildren.org Healing the Children]
* [http://www.memoryfoundation.org The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation]