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.
-
Governor Gretchen Whitmer Tuesday proposed spending $150 million in federal relief money on locally owned parks and trails. State officials say that’s… -
Michigan has reached a vaccination rate of 60% for a first dose of COVID-19 vaccines. That's in the population aged 16 and older.Ten days ago [June 1],… -
Michigan philanthropist and entrepreneur, Peter Secchia, died Wednesday morning. A spokeswoman for the family confirmed COVID-19 "was a contributing… -
Pinckney is a rural, small town about 20 miles northwest of Ann Arbor.On Friday afternoon, several dozen people, of all ages, held signs and chanted… -
More than a thousand resident physicians at the University of Michigan health system say they’re frustrated and insulted by contract negotiations that… -
Back in January, Michigan Radio shared the story of how a man escaped prosecution after multiple families accused him of sexually abusing their kids.… -
On Tuesday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a partnership with CVS Health to roll out rapid COVID-19 testing in Dearborn. The Abbott ID NOW™… -
The University of Michigan is instituting a hiring and salary freeze as part of an effort to combat major financial losses because of the coronavirus… -
Governor Gretchen Whitmer is ordering salons to close to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus in Michigan.The order includes nail and hair… -
The City of Flint is notifying its residents about a new drinking water violation. In the big scheme of things, this drinking water violation isn't major.…
