Today we chat with Matt Shearer, a Massachusetts based journalist and reporter with WBZ News Radio.
Online he is known as Reporter Matt, where is videos sharing quirky, heartwarming, often hilarious stories about local people have attracted millions of view on social media. In the spring of this year Matt did a live show of his program to a sold out crowd at Boston’s Wilbur theater.
We discuss:
How he finds and develops his stories
What good journalism and reporting means to him
Our shared love of all of New England’s weirdness
and much more.
Follow him on Instagram @reportermatt
This episode was recorded at the Christa Mcauliffe branch of the Framingham, MA public library.
Music provided by Sneaky Miles.
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