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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The hepatitis A outbreak has affected at least a dozen restaurants in three southeast Michigan counties this year. That’s why Oakland County is hosting… -
Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality is vowing to strengthen lead-in-water rules because of the Flint water crisis. At a public meeting in… -
Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality is unveiling changes to lead in water rules this week.Communities in Michigan with lead water pipes will…
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U.S. Congressman John Conyers maintains his innocence against sexual harassment accusations and says he will not resign. That’s according to a statement… -
There are lead service lines in older communities across Michigan. Because of their age and population size, it’s fair to say the bulk of Michigan’s lead… -
Because of the Flint water crisis, several Michigan cities are making long term plans to replace old lead water pipes that connect homes to the water… -
One of the things Flint’s water operators got in trouble for was falsifying records; for saying the city was testing homes at the highest risk of having… -
Public and political pressure from the Flint water crisis is beginning to shape new, tougher water regulations in Michigan - and other states are taking… -
Michigan’s drinking water regulators need more resources to do their jobs correctly. That’s one of the major takeaways of a detailed federal audit… -
5 things to know about the state's new "plain English" draft fixes to "dumb and dangerous" lead ruleMost water systems operators around the state had a hint this was coming.The Flint water crisis has reverberated among water professionals working from…
