Matthew F Smith
Matthew Smith is a reporter and producer of WGCU’s Gulf Coast Live.
Originally from Delaware, he moved to Alaska in 2010 for his first job in radio. He spent five years working as a radio and television reporter, as well as a radio producer, talk show host, and news director at stations across Alaska, where his reporting received awards from the Alaska Press Club and the Alaska Broadcasters Association. Relocating to southwest Florida, he spent several months producing television news before joining WGCU as the Gulf Coast Live producer in August 2016.
Matthew studied English and journalism at Villanova University in Villanova, PA, where he wrote for the school newspaper and other school publications. He taught English as a Second Language for several years before pursuing a career in journalism.
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Hurricane Irma made landfall on Marco Island shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday, with Florida Public Radio Emergency Network forecasters seeing winds blowing…
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As of 2:30pm Sunday, Hurricane Irma is a Category 3 hurricane just miles away from moving directly over Naples and Fort Myers. Winds of the monstrous…
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FPL is expecting more than 4 million accounts - a total of more than 9 million Florida residents - to experience power outages resulting from Hurricane…
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