Lindsey Smith
Newsroom EditorLindsey Smith edits newsroom features and projects, and leads many of our collaboration teams. She previously led the station's Amplify Team, and has 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 ACLU argues immigrants held under the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy deserve bond hearings to determine whether they should be released while their cases play out. -
More survivors of sexual abuse perpetrated by members of a Michigan-based religious organization are coming forward.
