DispatchCast

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 spring to hear their own future tech predictions, along with their opinions of the technology they've grown up with.

Bickett and host Chelsey Perkins take a walk down memory lane -- to when computer memory was measured in the megabits -- and discuss current and future tech themselves.

Host/Producer: Chelsey Perkins

Contributing Reporter: Spenser Bickett

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 spring to hear their own future tech predictions, along with their opinions of the technology they've grown up with.

Bickett and host Chelsey Perkins take a walk down memory lane -- to when computer memory was measured in the megabits -- and discuss current and future tech themselves.

Host/Producer: Chelsey Perkins

Contributing Reporter: Spenser Bickett

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 history column, "This Was Brainerd."

McCollough has an encyclopedic knowledge of many important moments in Brainerd's history, along with the bizarre and amusing tales of some of the city's most interesting characters. In celebration of Brainerd History Week, we sit down with McCollough for a little history lesson.

Producer/Host: Chelsey Perkins

Contributor: Terry McCollough

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 resident Yeager sat down with Brainerd Dispatch reporter Zach Kayser in 2015 for a story we ran in a September edition of the newspaper.

We bring you excerpts from his interview on Memorial Day weekend, in honor of the soldiers Yeager served with who lost their lives.

Read the original story here: http://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/3842704-all-american-merrifield-veteran-paradropped-sicily-liberated-concentration-camp

Producer/Host: Chelsey Perkins

Contributor/Editing Assistant: Zach Kayser

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 governmental transparency.

Host/Producer: Chelsey Perkins

Contributors: Matt Erickson and Renee Richardson