Interview with Matt McWilliams
Reporter, Editor, Photographer - Southside Messenger

Q: Do you feel newspaper writing and broadcasting relate and differ from your personal experience? And how?

McWilliams: Of course. Sentences like “John Doe, a wildlife rehabilitator and recent stroke victim, runs a rehabilitation center out of his backyard, taking in animals of all shapes and sizes that need some sort of human assistance before they are released into the wild” work fine in print. Readers can reread sentences and follow clauses better. On the radio, sentences have to be short and the voice has to drive the story. So a radio announcer can’t use a bunch of clauses and commas. So, the syntax is different and the general makeup is different.

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