Jacquie Jordan is an American television producer and media consultant. Jordan is best known for co-producing a season of '' Donny & Marie'' (1998), which was nominated for two Emmy Awards. She was also a co-producer for '' Sunday Morning Shootout'' for three years, and an executive producer for '' Square Off''. Jacquie Jordan in Production

Early life and education

Jordan grew up in

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and graduated from the

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with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Theater.“Waiting for Jimmy Smits to Call,”
University of Delaware Messenger, Volume 9, number 3, 2000 Jordan sold her first TV show at the age of 24 by going door to door to various New Jersey Cable Stations.Beveridge, Dawn: "Cracking the Glass Ceiling," Feedback Magazine, Sept/Oct, 2006. She decided to open her own media development company because she saw an opportunity to help connect “camera-ready experts” or “guestperts” with producers.Gschwandtner, Lisa: "Starring You," Selling Power Magazine, May 2006. Jordan is quoted as stating that women business owners, “...need to reach down to the younger women and even girls and pull them up the ladder as we go along, through mentoring, coaching and encouragement." In 2009, Jordan was set up by

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for a scene in the

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comedy feature

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, but the scene did not make it into the movie. In 2020, Jordan was invited back by her alma mater,

, to speak about

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: Why We Deserve New Branding for their annual

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event.

Career

Jordan was a local New Jersey

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for WSUS, and a news reporter for WNNJ-FM,

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and

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. In July 2000, she launched Jacquie Jordan Inc, a

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based media consultancy company. In 2002, Jordan launched a spinoff company, TVGuestpert.Broeske, Pat: "Experts With Ease is Her Expertise," Emmy Magazine, August 2012. In 2006, Jordan published the book ''Get on TV!: The Insider’s Guide to Pitching the Producers and Promotion Yourself'' (Sourcebooks, Inc) and in 2010 she published ''Heartfelt Marketing: Allowing the Universe to be Your Business Partner'' (BurmanBooks). In 2020, Jacquie Jordan's publishing company, TVGuestpert Publishing, released the eBook: ''Left Out: When the Truth Doesn't Fit In,'' by

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. Jordan told Fox News, "As a woman-owned business, we believe Tara Reade's story was worth being written, memorialized and shared."

Film and television

In 1997-1998, Jordan was a producer on the

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and in 1998-1999, she worked on Maury. Jordan helped produce a season of '' Donny & Marie'' (1998), which was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 2003, Jordan became the co-executive producer for the talk show '' Sunday Morning Shootout'', hosted by

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and

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, and ran the show for its first three years. In 2005, Jordan became the executive producer of '' Square Off,'' a Sunday morning television debate program hosted by Andy Wallenstein and Brian Lowry. Jordan has written contributions for Conscious Company Magazine and Huffington Post. Jordan started her publishing company, Jacquie Jordan Publishing Inc., which started with her first published book, ''Alex Detail's Revolution'', by Darren Campo in 2009. The company became TVGuestpert Publishing with Christy Whitman’s book, ''The Art of Having it All: A Woman's Guide To Unlimited Abundance'', which made the New York Times best seller list, under Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous, in March 2015. Jordan curated the inaugural TEDxFranklin in

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in March 2022, with 12 speakers.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Jacquie Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American television producers American women television producers People from New Jersey University of Delaware alumni 21st-century American women