Jordan Melnick is editor and co-founder of the culture and community news blog Beached Miami and the co-founder of Sketchy Miami, a community art project that connects Miami artists and Miami residents through portraiture.

Initiated into the journo tribe as an editor of his high school newspaper, Jordan has since earned an MSJ from Northwestern University and a Peter Jennings Project fellowship. Covering everything from the restaurant industry to Art Basel Miami Beach, Jordan's writing has appeared in The Miami Herald, The New York Times, The Atlantic Cities (affiliated with The Atlantic), and several other publications.

Jordan is currently in a serious relationship with Beached Miami. If you really want to know where he's at these days as a journalist, new-media explorer, and human being -- or if you just want to delve into Miami culture (such a thing does exist) -- visit the site.

You can follow Jordan on Twitter (@beachedmiami) or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/beachedmiami.