Lindsey Smith
Amplify Team LeaderLindsey Smith helps lead the station's Amplify Team. She previously served as Michigan Public's Morning News Editor, Investigative Reporter and West Michigan Reporter.
Lindsey co-wrote and co-hosted the 2018 Peabody award winning podcast, Believed, about how former gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar got away with sexual abuse for decades.
Her 2015 documentary about the Flint water crisis, Not Safe to Drink, won the station a national Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award, and a Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Award. The Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named her “Young Journalist of the Year” in 2014 and “Journalist of the Year” in 2018.
She’s a graduate of Eastern Michigan University and Specs Howard School of Media Arts.
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A group of activists, experts, and a local water council demand that regulators be more transparent about whether Benton Harbor’s water plant is meeting drinking water rules. -
A man who was the subject of a story Michigan Radio aired in January 2020 was sentenced Wednesday to probation and required to register as a sex offender. -
A Michigan Radio analysis found that as of January 2022, at least 120 people were being held in pre-trial detention at a Wayne County jail for more than 18 months. We’ve created this guide to help you understand due process rights, and ways you can support a loved one in pre-trial detention. -
For the past five months, state health officials have been telling Benton Harbor residents not to drink their tap water. But now the safety message for Benton Harbor seems to be shifting. And it’s left some residents confused about how best to keep their families safe. -
For five months, state health officials have told Benton Harbor residents not to drink their tap water. But now that safety message is shifting. -
The U.S. EPA says its study on Benton Harbor's tap water shows filters do work to remove lead. But the agency says residents should still only drink bottled water. It’s a mixed message, but lead isn’t the only lingering water quality concern. -
Benton Harbor has the longest-running lead-in-water exceedance in Michigan history, surpassing Flint by more than a year. The state paid a portion of Flint water bills for nearly three years. Benton Harbor residents are hoping for similar relief. -
People in Benton Harbor have been warned to consume only bottled water for two months now. EPA says answers about certified lead water filters won’t be available for maybe two more months. -
A growing number of local health departments in Michigan have now scrapped COVID-19 emergency orders over fears they will lose state funding. -
The Mackinac Bridge was closed to all traffic in both directions for more than two hours Sunday afternoon because of a bomb threat.The Mackinac Bridge…
