1. John Aravosis was born on November 27,1963 and is an American Democratic political consultant, journalist, civil rights advocate, and blogger.
19 Facts About John Aravosis
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John Aravosis grew up in what he describes as an "upper-middle-class" environment in the suburbs of Chicago.
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John Aravosis received his undergraduate degree in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received a joint JD degree and master's degree in foreign service from Georgetown, where he studied under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
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John Aravosis has a Diplome Superieur from the Cours de Civilisation Francaise of the Sorbonne, in Paris, France.
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John Aravosis worked on Capitol Hill in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a foreign policy adviser for Ted Stevens, a Republican senator from Alaska, before becoming a Democrat.
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John Aravosis subsequently worked at the World Bank, the Children's Defense Fund, as the US Politics editor at About.
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In 1997, John Aravosis started his own political Internet consulting business.
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John Aravosis has a speciality in using the Internet for political advocacy and international development that has brought him to Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
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In 2004, John Aravosis launched AMERICAblog, a progressive news blog dealing in politics.
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In March 2015, John Aravosis announced that he was leaving blogging, taking a new job at the United Nations Development Programme, and relinquishing his role at AMERICAblog.
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In 2016, John Aravosis returned to his role as executive editor of AMERICAblog.
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In March 2022, John Aravosis began The John Aravosis Report, a nightly social media news show devoted to US politics and the war in Ukraine.
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In 2006, John Aravosis learned that a number of commercial websites were selling people's private cell phone records, and that the practice was legal.
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In 2011, John Aravosis received a tip that British oil giant BP was posting falsified photos to its website during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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John Aravosis analyzed the photos, then published an article on AMERICAblog proving that the images were doctored electronically.
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In 2005, John Aravosis began hosting his own Internet television show, DemsTV.
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John Aravosis was a sometime TV pundit, having appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources and Larry King Live, ABC's World News Tonight and Nightline, MSNBC's Hardball, and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, among others.
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John Aravosis is a first-generation Greek-American, and has written about the influence his Greek heritage has had on his political work.
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John Aravosis is openly gay and has written frequently on gay rights.