Eli 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.
Detroit failed to secure backing from Michigan’s record-breaking $81.7 billion 2024 budget for a long-term psychiatric care project officials pitched...
Members of Detroit’s police oversight board want to remove two staffers who are no longer working but are still getting...
WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode of CuriosiD,...
The Detroit gas station where three people were shot earlier this month — resulting in one death — was participating...
Detroit could install 100 automated license plate readers under a proposal being considered by the city's citizen-led police oversight panel....
Two Detroit police officers are facing felony charges after allegedly forcing their way into a Roseville home last month. Macomb...
The Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN) is asking state lawmakers to add funding for mental health care in the...
A crucial economic development board has approved public subsidies for the District Detroit project. The Michigan Strategic Fund unanimously approved...
Two families are suing the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office over a pattern of behavior concerning "bizarre, unwarranted and unreasonable"...
The Detroit Police Department is outlining its budget requests for the next fiscal year, which includes a $22 million increase...
Numbers displayed on DTE Energy’s website have underestimated the extent of the utility’s power outages in Michigan. Recent figures cited...
Hailed as a “central strategy” to reduce youth gun violence and gang activity in Detroit, the city’s Ceasefire intervention program...
