Walt Sorg is a great asset to the Lansing area as a radio news personality for more than 40 years. Most recently, he has been the host on AMLansing on WILS radio, where he has served as the eyes and ears of a community that has needed someone who could talk to and report about everybody.
Now he’s joining a new venture in the area, web-based radio, TalkLansing.net. Right now, the only details I know are on this audio where he describes the new venture and his role in it.
Walt, has been a friend and colleague for most of his four decades in the area. We worked together as reporters and when I was pressroom manager at the State Capitol. He understands the role of news media and knows how to report both sides of a story. He has a point of view, but he respects others. And he has been able to navigate the winds of change in the myriad of transitions that local news media has been experiencing.
I will share more details of his change as I learn them. I invite friends of Walt and others to leave comments.
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Thanks, Wes, for the kind comments. We’re very excited about launching Lansing radio into the internet age.
I can put you in touch with a Lansing native who at this very second is on the scene doing a very important job at a 210-bed tent hospital in Port Au Prince, Haiti. She has been here more than a month and during that time has had to help move patients out of the hospital because of electrical fires, braved floods and supported medical professionals giving vitally needed care to Haitian still hurting even four months after the earthquake. She is there, by the way, with Project Medishare, a tent hospital sponsred by the University of Miami Medical School. It is a wonderful story. She is Amanda Goddard who went to high school in Eaton Rapids, MI. Her father, Garry Goddard, lives at 2400 Clifton in Lansing.
You can reach me by phone at 614-436-0027.