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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Jennifer Gilchrist moved from New York City back home to the Detroit suburb of Beverly Hills in 2016. She moved to help take care of her mom Joellen, a… -
About 100 students rallied in the rain Tuesday afternoon, marched up to the second floor of Welch Hall, and confronted the president of Eastern Michigan… -
80,945 against to 75 in favor.These numbers show the scope of the public opposition to a new proposal from Nestle.The company wants to be able to pump a… -
Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality should update its rules on the level of lead that’s considered acceptable in drinking water.That is the one… -
It’s been half a century since the federal government banned discrimination in the home mortgage industry. But a new analysis of mortgage data shows… -
The second day of the Larry Nassar sentencing in Eaton County got off to a turbulent start when an angry father of three victims lunged at the former… -
More than 13 years ago, a concerned mom brought her daughter into the Meridian Township Police Department to file a police report against Dr. Larry… -
It's been a tumultuous week in East Lansing, home of the Spartans.President Lou Anna Simon resigned on Wednesday, and Athletic Director Mark Hollis… -
Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon wanted to “personally” provide state lawmakers an overview of how the public institution is responding… -
All the snow and cold and even a bum wrist from a recent fall didn’t stop Otis Lee from his mission to get vaccinated. Using a cane, Lee hobbled into the…
