Jordan Coll is an award-winning investigative journalist with a pulse for reporting stories that fundamentally and truly matter. As a Miami native, he shares both Colombian and Dominican roots.
He is also a trilingual speaker of English, Spanish, and French. His reporting has led him to work among award-winning editors and journalists at the Pulitzer Awarded newsroom the Miami Herald.
In his time at the newsroom under the mentorship of his undergraduate journalism program at Florida International University, he uncovered skillsets such as delivering concise and timely news to a community that needed it the most. One of the investigative stories he reported on at the Miami Herald led to the dismissal of 74 unwarranted arrests brought by the state attorney general due to the uprising in George Floyd-related protests in Miami.
Combing through public record requests, affidavit reports, and one-on-one interviews with those arrested, he was able to spotlight a systematic trend of physical abuse brought on by the police system in Miami-Dade County. The story also won first place from the Florida Society of Professional Journalists.
Recently, he finished covering an 11-month-investigation into the whereabouts of Venezuelan military prisoners involved in two failed operations known as Operation Gideon and Operation Drone Strike.
He has also covered an array of topics, from national reporting on a series of natural disaster-related events including the 2023 wildfires in Hawaii, to city council and school board meetings, to investigative stories that have led to policy shifts within local government.
As a first-generation Latino journalist with a multi-ethnic background and the ability to speak three languages, he understands the uniqueness and value of being multifaceted in an ever-changing industry such as journalism.
With over 8 years of experience as a multimedia journalist, including reporting on breaking news events across various digital and print media platforms, along with running an editorial team during a global pandemic-a team which won first place for its COVID-19 university coverage named PantherNOW.
He has a thirst and hunger for reporting stories of public impact. Previously during his graduate studies, he served as an assistant editor for the Ira A. Lipman Center at Columbia University.
He completed his master's degree at Columbia University's School of Journalism, with a bachelor's degree in journalism at Florida International University, a minor in philosophy, and a certificate program in law, ethics, and society. In addition, he graduated from the FIU Honors College Program with highest honors. He is also a recipient of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Facebook in Journalism Scholarship.
Publications he has written for include The Nation, The Washington Post, The Hudson Reporter, Miami Herald, Columbia News Service, Miami New Times, South Florida Media Network, Miami Times, and the Miami Community Newspaper. He has also previously worked with the elections team at the Associated Press for the 2024 Primary & Presidential cycle.
