Writer Matt Wake has been writting for the Daily Journal/Messenger since July 2005. In March 2008, he received a South Carolina Press Association award for feature writing.
In addition to being the Journal/Messenger’s life section editor, Matt is also the managing editor of Bootleg Essential Culture, an arts and entertainment monthly. He pens articles for Upstate Lake Living as well.
After spending a decade playing music professionally in New Orleans, Birmingham, AK. and Tuscaloosa, AK, Wake began his writing career with The Valley Planet, an alternative newspaper in Huntsville, AK. Wake cites David Fricke, Stanley Booth and Hunter S. Thompson as primary journalistic influences. A resident of Central, Wake received his communications degree from the University of Alabama.

Recent Stories

• Promoting game day responsibility
  Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
  College football tailgating can easily segue into bacchanalia, but Clemson University students want safety in the mix too. | Read more

• Online intersection for friends and action heroes
  Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
  Three computer monitors flicker in a window-lit room filled with 1,500 books and a grand piano. | Read more

• Fixing broken hearts
  Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008
  What goes into five years? The laughter, love, tough lessons and small moments that help paint a person’s life.
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• With debate tonight, is presidential race already over?
  Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008
  Political scientist Dave Woodard believes Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama can go ahead and measure drapes for the Oval Office.
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• Clemson campus 'all clear
  Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
  Clemson University police received reports at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday of gunshot sounds in Thornhill Village, a residential apartment area of Clemson’s campus. Police were on the scene within minutes to assess the situation. | Read more

• Can you hear me now?
  Clemson cell phones yanked in 2009
  Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
  “There was a time where if you had a cell phone you were a rich person, but over time the price of cell phones reached a more reasonable level. But the laws have not caught up with the technology.”
  — Lawrence Nichols, chief human resources officer, Clemson University | Read more

• Fungi safari
  Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
  Tramping through dewy woods, Julia Kerrigan and her confederates look inside dead logs, on forest floors and between sprawling roots. They’re looking for mushrooms. | Read more

• Chasing the next note
  Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008
  Sometimes jazz violinist Regina Carter writes her set list on the back of an envelope. Other times it’s scribbled on a piece of paper found in the dressing room | Read more

• Clemson faces economic challenges from every angle
  Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008
  With new state budget cuts brewing, America’s financial crisis will likely impact Clemson University’s other revenue streams too. | Read more

• Icing, tug-of-war and talons
  Pendleton Fall Harvest Festival returns
  Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
  Cakes that look like footballs. Cakes that look like eyeglasses. Cakes that look like gigantic hamburgers.
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