Jordan Pettiford
Writer + Journalist + Filmmaker
About Me
Hello! My name is Jordan Pettiford and I'm a journalist and filmmaker based in New York and Atlanta. As of this May 2025, I've received my B.A. from Columbia University in Film and Media Studies and Creative Writing. I've done internships for CNN working on various shows including 'First of All' with Victor Blackwell and documentary style show, 'The Whole Story' with Anderson Cooper. During my time in school, you could find me working on my fiction and nonfiction writing, exploring the city, and searching for stories for the Columbia Daily Spectator, the independent student newspaper where I served as Editor of the Video Section. While my filmmaking spans both fiction and nonfiction work, my most recent projects have been journalistic and include broadcast writes for CNN, a music journalism segment inspired by NPR's tiny dorm concert, and an archival mini-doc on the nation's first LGBT student organization. Through the years I've gained experience taking videos from pre to post production; whether it's research, scripting, videography, or editing in Premiere Pro or Final Cut X, or graphics creation in After Effects I'd love to produce or help out with whatever your project may be!
Selected Projects
Video Journalism.
Alpha Phi Alpha may ban transgender members
A St. Louis court found him innocent. He's still in prison.
Tiny Dorm: High Piss Velocity
Tiny Dorm: Christina Li
UFAD activists work alongside Manhattanville tenants facing poor living conditions
Campus Speculations: Bacchanal
Student Homophile League: The Nation's First Gay Student Organization
On the street with the vendors of West Harlem
Nic Stone: Writing for Change
Selected Projects
Audio.
Outside of my more documentary-style video work, I also have worked in other mediums for projects such as Untextbooked, a youth led history podcast where I'm an episode producer! At Untextbooked, I've had the opportunity to coordinate and conduct interviews subjects from an Emmy-winning documentarian to a career journalist and professor. Recently, Untextbooked has been nominated for an Ambie Award (Podcasting Academy)!
The ‘Stunt Work’ That Launched Women Into Investigative Journalism (feat. Brooke Kroeger)
What is religious racism? (feat. Dr. Danielle Boaz)
How ACT UP helped tame the AIDS crisis (feat. David France)