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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Under growing pressure, Michigan’s Department of Corrections outlines “several deliberate steps in recent weeks to improve conditions” at the state's only prison for women. -
Growing concern surrounds the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility after the weekend passing of a 36-year-old prisoner prompted renewed scrutiny from elected officials and advocates. Emergency calls from previous deaths released to Michigan Public, but autopsies are still underway. -
The case seems likely headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Lansing is looking at renaming Cesar Chavez Avenue, in light of the child sexual assault allegations against the late farm worker union leader. -
As the population of detainees at North Lake Processing Center topped a thousand people late last year, dozens of emergency calls came into the county emergency dispatch center. Audio from these 911 calls give us a small window into what’s happening inside. -
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. -
The designation means the federal government will provide financial and technical help to clean up the groundwater plume. -
As the population in the privately-run North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin grew in September 2025, habeas corpus petitions started to show up in Michigan’s federal District Courts. Judges granted most of the hundreds of petitions they’ve ruled on. -
When the last clinic offering abortion in the Upper Peninsula closed, a local urgent care started offering abortion pills to help fill the gap. Now it could be a national model for a new kind of abortion access. -
Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker made the announcement Thursday morning. "I did the best I could," he said, noting how it's split the community. "I don't see us being able to reach a verdict."
