About
Lindsey Mastis is the Bureau Manager for Feature Story News’ new Los Angeles office. She manages story and staffing assignments, and produces radio news reports for dozens of networks around the world.
As a video journalist, Lindsey writes, shoots, edits, and reports on camera for several of FSN’s international clients, including CCTV America (an English-speaking news channel seen in 80 countries), and Channel News Asia.
Lindsey uses social networking in the field as a news gathering tool and has even been featured in Mashable.com article about incorporating social networking with reporting.
For three years, Lindsey worked at WUSA 9, the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC, where she covered President Barack Obama’s Inauguration, the Discovery Channel Hostage Situation, Hurricane Irene, and even Charlie Sheen’s controversial police escort.
Lindsey made headlines while shooting a story about MTV‘s Real World. As cast members moved into a house in Dupont Circle, Mastis was there with her video camera. As she tried to interview fans, MTV’s camera crew blocked her shots. The incident appeared on YouTube, and was written about in several newspapers and magazines including Washingtonian Magazine and the New York Post.
Lindsey often incorporates social networking into her reports. As snow began to fall during the February 2010 Blizzard, Lindsey used Skype to report live from Reagan National Airport as flights were cancelled. She tweeted as she walked from Arlington, Va. to the US Capitol to demonstrate how long it would take for Virginians to get to the Inauguration, because the Secret Service announced that bridges were off limits to vehicles.
Lindsey takes pictures in the field and shares them on Instagram (examples on Tumblr), Foursquare, Twitter and Facebook, to let viewers get a sneak peak at what stories she is working on for the evening broadcasts. She also used this technology for an in-depth report on the safety of geotagging social sites.
Lindsey worked as a morning show anchor and reporter at WSIL-TV in Southern Illinois. Some of her accomplishments include an investigative report in which she tracked down a fugitive child predator, a stay inside two county jails, a series on government waste spending, and an in-depth report on homeless families.
Lindsey previously sat on the board of directors for the Illinois News Broadcasters Association and chaired the INBA Cams and Mics Committee which spearheads efforts to bring broadcast coverage to Illinois trial and federal courts.
Lindsey graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from SIUC, and a minor in Administration of Justice. She learned about broadcast news while volunteering as an anchor, reporter and producer at the student-run newscast on WSIU-TV. She interned at ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C., WFAA-TV (ABC affiliate) in Dallas, and KTVI-TV (FOX affiliate) in St. Louis. Lindsey also completed a two-week journalism program in Britain and France.
Lindsey enjoys running and has completed more than a dozen races. She completed her first marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, in 2011.
