Action News 5 - Memphis, TennesseeLindsey Brown

Contact Lindsey Brown by sending an email to lindseybrown@wmctv.com

Lindsey Brown is thrilled to be back in the Mid-South. After five years spent working as the main evening anchor in Meridian, Mississippi, she is now back to where she spent a good chunk of her college days. As a student at Ole Miss, graduating in 2005 from the School of Journalism, Lindsey fell in love with the North Mississippi hills and all Memphis has to offer.

Lindsey started working in Meridian in 2006 as a general assignment reporter. She was later promoted to the weekend anchor spot and is leaving WTOK-TV in Meridian as their main evening anchor for the 6 and 10 pm newscasts. Through the years, Lindsey has won several first place Mississippi Associated Press awards for her work covering the big stories to hit the state.

She's had the opportunity to be a part of many of the exciting stories to hit the world over the last five years. In 2010, while on vacation, she found herself stranded in Paris in the middle of the Icelandic volcano. No vacation for her. She went out and bought a flip camera to send stories back to her station every night. The 2008 Presidential Debate in Oxford allowed her the chance to report live on the historic event every night for the people of East Mississippi and West Alabama. Meridian's Naval Air Base gave her the chance to fly with the Blue Angels and know what it really feels like to be a jet fighter. She also flew over the site of the Gulf Oil Spill explosion just days after it rocked the region and her hometown. Most recently, the wave of tornadoes that swept across the south in 2011 made its way right over Meridian. Lindsey was on the scene of the destruction just minutes after it hit many of our communities and killed several residents.

Lindsey is from the small coastal Mississippi town of Long Beach. She loves traveling, and on her down time spends the weekends searching for new thrift stores and flea markets. She completed two marathons in 2011. During the New Orleans Marathon in February she ran to raise money for the Meridian Cancer Patients Benevolence Fund which helps cancer patients pay for incidentals during their treatment.