Lindsay Huth

Multimedia Reporting Intern

Lindsay Huth is a journalism master's student at the University of Maryland focused on data and computational journalism. She works on data and graphics for Flatland as part of the Dow Jones News Fund program. She has published data and investigative projects focused on Baltimore police corruption, the plea bargaining system and safety at military hospitals. She's also completed internships at U.S. News & World Report and her hometown paper, the American Press. Lindsay has an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, where she studied visual communication design and psychology. She hails from Akron, Ohio — home of LeBron James, the greatest basketball player of all time — and she eats tacos whenever possible.

Stories by Lindsay Huth

worker changing trash bag at children's mercy park in Kansas City, Kansas

How Are Stadiums Cleaned After Games?

When baseball season ends this month, Kauffman Stadium will have hosted 83 Royals home games. That’s 83 days of hot dogs, popcorn and beer. And each night, someone has to clean it all up. A reader asked curiousKC about that process: How do Kansas City’s professional sports venues get cleaned after games? We couldn’t connect…

Ben Evans, his fiancee and their dog

Is Kansas City’s Population Growing?

Ben Evans is a Kansas City transplant, and after he recently bought a house in Waldo, he started wondering: Are other people moving to Kansas City? And how do experts and forecasters expect the population to change in the coming years? He posed those questions to curiousKC, and we fired up our spreadsheets to find…

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Abandoned or Wrecked: The Numbers Behind the City’s Car Auction

John Baccala stood in a parking lot in the Northeast Industrial District of Kansas City, Missouri, and raised his voice over the auctioneer’s bid calling. “Every one of these cars has a story,” said Baccala, the communication/community liaison for the city’s Neighborhoods and Housing Services Department. Baccala has seen more than 5,200 cars pass through…

Kristen Hanks, who works in the Fort Osage school district cafeteria program, hands out lunches at Susquehanna Baptist Church in Independence, Missouri, a government-funded summer meal site. For children in the Kansas City metro area, food insecurity rises in the summer, but food sites like these are rare in rural areas. (Lindsay Huth | Flatland

Rural and Hungry

  The rush hits at noon. That’s when kids start pouring into the gym at Susquehanna Baptist Church. On a scorching Wednesday last month, they lined up to choose their lunches: pizza, subs or PB&J. Most picked pizza. The Independence, Missouri, church is one of more than 350 summer food sites around Kansas City that…