John Iadarola


John Iadarola is an American talk show host, YouTube personality, and political pundit, and serves as a main political host for the online news show The Young Turks. Iadarola is also the host of the docu-series True North, distributed on the go90 streaming service by Verizon.

Career

Iadarola earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Connecticut before attending the University of Texas at Austin from 2007 to 2012. He left school before completing his dissertation in order to work for The Young Turks.
In January 2012, Iadarola became the cohost of TYTUniversity, the second most popular show on the network, alongside Ana Kasparian and a producer of The Young Turks. When Kasparian left TYTUniversity a few months later, he became its main host and executive producer. During this time, Iadarola also began cohosting The Young Turks and other YouTube programs such as What The Flick, TYT Sports, TwentyTwelve, The Point, Pop Trigger, and others.
In May 2013, Iadarola debuted his own eponymous, independent YouTube channel. Topics typically include domestic and foreign politics, media criticism, technology and social commentary on the news of the day. On September 25, 2013, Iadarola revealed on air that he was an atheist.
In 2017 John has appeared as a personality on the History Channel series: “The Ultimate Guide to Sounding Smart”.
Shot in 2017, Iadarola and co-host Chavala Madlena went on location to the Arctic to see and document the effects of climate change for the series True North a joint venture of The Young Turks and go90. Promoting the series in April 2018, Iadarola appeared with Bill Nye, the science guy and Dr. Kate Marvel.
In May, 2018, TYT Network announced its inclusion in the new YouTube OTT programming service. At that time it also announced a new daily show called "The Damage Report" hosted by Iadarola. In June 2018, Iadarola was a guest on AirTalk.