Jonathan Mark " Jon " Ralston (born July 13, 1959) is an American journalist, political commentator and talk show host. The show, Ralston Live , is visible every weekday at two Nevada PBS stations in Las Vegas and Reno and its show is closed on June 21, 2016.
In January 2017, Ralston launched The Nevada Independent (TNI), a non-profit online news site devoted to Nevada business and government.
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Biography
Ralston was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and grew up in Buffalo, New York, USA, where he attended Williamsville South High School. He received a BA in English from Cornell University in 1981, and an MA in Journalism from the University of Michigan in 1983.
After finishing his education, Ralston moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, to become a night police reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1984. In 1986, he was assigned to cover politics and in 1989, he became a full-time political columnist for the paper. In 1999, he sold his bulletin cover project to Greenspun Media Group and started writing for Las Vegas Sun, one of their newspapers. His book, The Anointed One: An Inside Look At Nevada Politics, was published in September 2000. It tells how Kenny Guinn won his first election, the Nevada governor race in 1998, with the support of the casino industry and political insiders.
In September 2012, Ralston left Las Vegas Sun . In 2014, Ralston emerged as an actor in the original series of Amazon Alpha House . Her KSNV Ralston Reports TV show ended on December 12, 2014. On January 7, 2015, she started writing for Reno Gazette-Journal. In 2016, he was mainly known in Nevada for his TV show, Ralston Live, a different email newsletter called Flash, and a twice-weekly column for Reno Gazette-Journal . The show was discontinued on June 21, 2016.
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Nevada selection predictions and analysis
Ralston is nationally known for his analysis of the Nevada election, primarily based on early voting results. He has made appearances as a political commentator on various TV shows and networks including Meet the Press, MSNBC, Fox News, and PBS. Ralston accurately predicted Senator Harry Reid's victory in 2010 based on his initial sound predictions, although voting showed that Reid would lose. He accurately predicts both the presidential election in Nevada and the Nevada Senate election in 2016 on the basis of preliminary voting data.
2016 Nevada state convention
Reporting the Nevada Democratic state convention in 2016, Ralston tweeted that Senator supporters Bernie Sanders had thrown seats. The Associated Press filed a similar report. NPR initially repeated Ralston's reporting just like any other media did, but erased it after only finding evidence that a chair was lifted in the air but nothing was thrown. Snopes, a website documenting and debating urban legends and rumors, identified Ralston as a source for a statement that Sanders supporters had thrown seats and said there was no evidence to support him.
The Nevada Independent
Ralston plans to launch a digital news publication in early 2017 called The Nevada Independent first reported in November 2016. The site was launched on January 17, 2017, and Ralston announced he would reveal the source of all his donations.
References
External links
- Official website
- Jon Ralston on IMDb
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