Lindsey Smith

Notable work and positions

Michigan Public (formerly Michigan Radio) — Editor, newsroom features and projects
Believed (Michigan Radio/NPR podcast) — Co-writer and Co-host (2018)
Not Safe to Drink (Michigan Radio documentary) — Reporter (2015)

Biography

Lindsey Smith edits newsroom features and projects and leads collaboration teams at Michigan Public, the state's NPR member station network, where she has also served as Morning News Editor, Investigative Reporter, and West Michigan Reporter. She co-wrote and co-hosted the 2018 Peabody Award-winning podcast Believed, produced with Michigan Radio and NPR, about how former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar evaded accountability for decades of sexual abuse; she and co-host Kate Wells received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for the series. Her 2015 documentary Not Safe to Drink, about the Flint water crisis, won the station a national Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and a Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Award. Smith and colleagues were also Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2023. 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 is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University and the Specs Howard School of Media Arts.