Destination Downtown Business Challenge -- DispatchCast Episode 008
What would you do with $50,000 worth of business support to make your dream happen? The winner of the Destination Downtown Business Challenge will find this out in the fall -- but you can find out now...
6 Jul 201749min
A Conversation with Jim Thoreen -- DispatchCast Episode 007
Radio journalism, public service and community theater -- these are just a few of the things that make up Brainerd City Administrator Jim Thoreen. Reporter Spenser Bickett, who covers the Brainerd cit...
30 Jun 201742min
Lakes Jam 2017 -- DispatchCast Episode 006
Get ready to rock, it's Lakes Jam time! Reporter Jennifer Stockinger shares some of her interviews with the festival organizers and this year's artists in this episode of the DispatchCast. Featuring C...
22 Jun 201728min
Teens Talk Tech of Past, Present and Future -- DispatchCast Episode 005
When you were a teen, did you envision a world of smartphones, self-driving cars and augmented reality? Reporter Spenser Bickett spoke with a group of Forestview Middle School students earlier this sp...
20 Jun 201740min
Terry McCollough Talks Brainerd History -- DispatchCast Episode 004
Former Brainerd Dispatch publisher Terry McCollough collected his first paycheck at the newspaper in 1959, so he was in the newsroom for some of the historical events he now shares in his daily histor...
9 Jun 201733min
A WWII Vet Remembers on Memorial Day Weekend -- DispatchCast Episode 003
Ralph Yeager parachuted over Sicily in WWII, and was a mess sergeant during the Battle of the Bulge, among a number of other experiences he had while serving in the Army. Now 95 years old, Merrifield ...
27 Mai 201727min
The Making of a Newspaper -- DispatchCast Episode 002
In the second episode of the DispatchCast, editors Matt Erickson and Renee Richardson discuss the editorial decisions they make and why, along with the importance of community journalism and governmen...
22 Mai 201730min
Meet the Newsroom -- DispatchCast Episode 001
In the first episode of DispatchCast, we introduce you to the award-winning reporters who make up the newsroom of the only daily newspaper in north-central Minnesota. They write the stories readers s...
19 Mai 201723min
