Full Name
Jordan Jarrett-Bryan
Job Title
Journalist, TV Broadcaster and Podcast Host
Company
Blakademik
Speaker Bio
Jordan Jarrett Bryan is a Journalist and Sports Broadcaster in the UK. He’s worked in media for nearly 30 years across print, radio, tv and digital. He’s now the Sports Presenter for one of the UK’s most respected news programmes, Channel 4 News. He started working in print media at the age of 13, writing for a youth magazine called Live. He went on to become Editor a year later and was in post for 8 years before going on to edit other publications and radio at the BBC.
Jordan is a below the knee amputee, after having his right foot amputated aged 18 months. He’s lived with prosthetic legs since and had a 25 year career playing Wheelchair Basketball for clubs in London, GB and professional in the Italian league for 5 years. He got his break into TV at the 2012 Paralympics Games for Channel 4 and has been working at the network’s Sports Correspondent since. He’s also worked for sports radio network talkSPORT and since set up his own video production company, Blakademik Productions.
He launched a disability positive podcast ‘Jordan Jarrett Bryan’s The Coolest Disabled In The World’, having informal conversions with people who have achieved amazing things - who just happen to have a disability. He also hosts a Sports and Society podcast ‘Whisper It Loudly, alongside Broadcasters and Journalists Darren Lewis, Hugh Woozencroft and Troy Townsend.
Jordan is a below the knee amputee, after having his right foot amputated aged 18 months. He’s lived with prosthetic legs since and had a 25 year career playing Wheelchair Basketball for clubs in London, GB and professional in the Italian league for 5 years. He got his break into TV at the 2012 Paralympics Games for Channel 4 and has been working at the network’s Sports Correspondent since. He’s also worked for sports radio network talkSPORT and since set up his own video production company, Blakademik Productions.
He launched a disability positive podcast ‘Jordan Jarrett Bryan’s The Coolest Disabled In The World’, having informal conversions with people who have achieved amazing things - who just happen to have a disability. He also hosts a Sports and Society podcast ‘Whisper It Loudly, alongside Broadcasters and Journalists Darren Lewis, Hugh Woozencroft and Troy Townsend.
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