Jordan Kligerman

Jordan Kligerman is part of the television, radio and film department as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Newhouse Sports Media Center. He teaches the courses Sports Documentary and Sports Content for Social Platforms. 

Kligerman has been a faculty member at the Newhouse School since 2021 as a visiting assistant teaching professor, teaching courses he developed called Sports Documentary and Sports Social Content while leading the award-winning student production group, 44 Films. Before joining the Newhouse faculty, Kligerman spent five years as part of the athletics department at Syracuse University. Starting in the department as a creative media specialist, Kligerman was promoted to assistant athletics director for creative services in 2017. In his role as creative director, Kligerman led all video and graphic design for social media, commercials, development, in arena productions, special events and contributed to broadcasts for the ACC Network.

Kligerman produced events, commercials and other content for Syracuse University Athletics as the principal owner and operator of fireKmedia. Kligerman managed his own firm for 10 years with a client base that included NFL Films, the National Basketball Players Association and Aspen Dental. Prior to running his own firm, Kligerman spent eight years with NFL Films as a production manager, coordinator and assistant. During that time, Kligerman helped produce content for ABC, FOX, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network.  

Kligerman’s research and creative work sits at the intersection of art and sport. He seeks a deeper exploration into how sport is portrayed in artistic formats through documentary film, sports graphic design, cinematic video and motion graphics on conventional platforms such as linear cable, streaming and in arena.  The exploration continues into how fans and stakeholders interact with similar content within the digital platforms of social media and web based video. 

Kligerman’s work has been shown as part of talks and screenings at Yale University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Ithaca College, Syracuse University and the Broadcast Educators Association Conference. Kligerman’s films have been screened at the Cityvisions Film Festival in New York and the Lake Tahoe International Festival and distributed on Time Warner Cable Sports.