Introducing the Dispatch's Newest Reporter Tim Speier
Tim Speier joins the Dispatch staff after a windy path on his way here, including two tours in Iraq with the Marines, work in a factory, the oil fields, as a mechanic and then an accidental journalist...
9 Nov 202116min
Businesses behind the 2021 Progress Edition
The Dispatch reporters discuss the stories about area businesses they covered in this year's Progress Edition. The DispatchCast is a product of Forum Communications Co. and is brought to you by report...
9 Sep 202136min
Introducing 'Ask The Editor'
On Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, Brainerd Dispatch Editor Matt Erickson and Community Editor Chelsey Perkins hosted an "Ask The Editor" Facebook Live forum. This is the audio of that conversation. The Disp...
13 Aug 202133min
The State of Lakes Area Hospitals as the Pandemic Surges
For months of relative calm, area hospitals worked to develop complex and ever-adapting plans for how to handle what may lie ahead in the coronavirus pandemic. Now facing more COVID-19 patients than ...
17 Nov 20201h 29min
Haunted Brainerd: Last Turn Saloon
The Last Turn Saloon is one of Brainerd's oldest and most iconic businesses, dating back to the early pioneer and railroad days of the city that grew from the banks of the Mississippi River. Its curre...
31 Okt 202025min
How the Spanish flu affected Brainerd 100 years ago
It was 1918 in Brainerd, Minnesota, and residents were focused on the sacrifices they were making for the war effort abroad. Little did they know they would soon face an enemy much closer to home as t...
7 Sep 20201h 14min
Everything You Need to Know About Mail Balloting
Deborah Erickson is not only the elections head in Crow Wing County. She also serves as chair of the elections committee for the Minnesota Association of County Officers, as the Minnesota-designated l...
25 Maj 20201h 10min
REBROADCAST: Ethics, Journalism and Public Trust
With this week's epic misinformation on social media, we thought it would be a good time to revisit this 2018 conversation on journalistic ethics. What makes a journalist ethical? How can journalists ...
9 Maj 202043min
