Jordan's Journalism
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This website is an archive for all of my news writing throughout my career. It makes my portfolio aesthetically unique and pleasing, easily searchable, and accessible for disabilities of all sorts. No paywall, no popups, and no AI, ever. Just articles made by a human for the public interest.
About Me
A young white boy with a narrow-eyed smile, wearing a black shirt with black hair, beard, and moustache
It's nice to meet you! My name is Jordan Turk. I'm a 21 year-old small-time journalist intern from Philadelphia, Mississippi. I have Cerebral Palsy, but it doesn't keep me from helping people. I was a Communication major at Mississippi State University (and currently taking a gap year) with a specialization in Broadcast and Digital Journalism, and have done good work both in my news writing classes and my current job at the Neshoba Democrat!
Why I Do What I Do

All of my beliefs are downstream from a fundamental truth: It's good when people are happy, healthy, and at peace with each other and their environment.

I thus support democracy in all things, condemn authoritarianism wherever it appears, and believe all people are entitled to a basic quality of life.

That not only includes negative freedom, the ability to do what you want without infringement from anyone, interpersonally or systemically, but also positive freedom, being given the resources you need that enable you to pursue those freedoms. A man dropped into the stateless wastes of Antarctica is free to do whatever he wishes, but without food, shelter, facilities, warm clothes, and the know-how to survive, he is a dead man walking.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can only exist in a functional society with the adequate resources to enable people to exercise their constitutionally endowed rights. I support the maintenance of apparatuses that provide the education and social safety nets that maintain an equitable civil society in which all people are both allowed and enabled to make informed, responsible decisions to ensure a functional democracy.

I maintain healthy skepticism of all power and authority and believe that those whom we trust to use the power we give them must at all times be held to a standard in maintaining the freedoms, autonomy, and life we elect them to maintain.

In keeping with this belief, I am in support of honest, transparent journalism that acts as a watchdog for those in power and reaffirms the values of democracy, civil society, tolerance, free speech, and anti-authoritarianism.

In my mind, true journalists hold powerful people accountable for abuses of power on an interpersonal or societal level that infringe on the rights of others. That is who I want to be. Whoever you are, I believe in you, and I want to give you the education you need to make the best decisions for yourself and the wider world around you. I want to enable us to make a better world together.

I don't think I'm the hottest thing since sliced bread, but if I can change one life for the better, then it will all have been worth it. I hope you enjoy.