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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A 27 year old woman is dead after being shot by Detroit police responding to a mental health crisis last night. -
Detroit will not adopt a new food safety grading system for restaurants.
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More than 600-hundred people showed up to a Dearborn board of education meeting last night.
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Porter Burks was shot and killed by Detroit police on Sunday, now his family is preparing to sue the five officers involved.Police shot at Burks 38 times while the 20-year-old was having a mental health crisis. Burks was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
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Detroiters still don’t know if the city will expand gunshot detection technology through other neighborhoods.
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Detroit officials began their demolition of the Packard Plant Thursday, September 29. The demolition was ordered by a Wayne County judge earlier this year. It’s owner, Fernando Palazuelo, failed to follow that court order, and the city is now leading demolitions.
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Shri Thanedar won his primary to represent parts of Detroit, the Grosse Pointes, and downriver.
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Detroit's new water affordability plan has about a year and a half of funding. City officials want more people to apply.
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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.
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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.
