Eli Newman
Reporter/ProducerEli Newman is a Reporter/Producer for 101.9 WDET, covering breaking news, politics and community affairs. Newman is an award-winning radio journalist and was named the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors Broadcast Rising Star in 2017. His work has appeared on NPR, Marketplace and the Detroit Free Press among others. Newman joined WDET as a newsroom intern in 2014 and is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he first worked in radio at the student-run station WCBN.
Newman is a life-long resident of Southeast Michigan and now lives in Northwest Detroit. His favorite Motown track is “It’s the Same Old Song” by the Four Tops.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she’s using the full weight of her office to protect abortion access. She says she will not discipline abortion providers or enforce other provisions of Michigan law limiting reproductive rights. But Nessel says her power is limited, and changes need to be made to Michigan’s constitution. -
A Michigan Congressman is calling an act of vandalism in his district pro-abortion “domestic terrorism", but that’s not what local law enforcement is calling it.Representative Tim Walberg tweeted pictures of broken glass and spray-painted messages at a Right to Life building near his campaign office in Jackson.
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Former Detroit City Councilmember Andre Spivey will serve two years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to bribery charges.
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Concerns over COVID-19 are prompting a new wave of testing in Metro Detroit, while Omicron is driving the trend.
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Wayne State and the University of Michigan found an undercount in their audit of Detroit’s 2020 Census.
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Much like the rest of the state, Detroit is seeing a rise of COVID-19 hospitalizations. City health officials are urging caution ahead of the winter holidays.
