Dustin Dwyer
Reporter / Producer, Michigan PublicDustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Public's West Michigan bureau.
He was a fellow in the class of 2018 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He’s been with Michigan Public since 2004, when he started as an intern in the newsroom.
He left the station in 2010-2011 to be a stay at home dad, and returned to be part of the Changing Gears project, a collaboration between Michigan Radio, Ideastream in Cleveland and WBEZ in Chicago. From 2012–2017, he was part of the team for State of Opportunity, and produced several radio documentaries on kids and families in Michigan. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife and three kids.
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The city of Grand Rapids has fired Christopher Schurr, the police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya. -
Michigan's summer tourism season is here, and there’s hope that the industry will continue to rebound from the pandemic. -
The person who could decide whether to file criminal charges over the police killing of Patrick Lyoya accepted a political contribution from the police union six years ago. -
The Grand Rapids police department released video today showing what happened when an officer fatally shot Patrick Lyoya following a traffic stop last week. -
Police in Grand Rapids have released videos of an incident earlier this month when an unnamed officer shot a Black man in the back of his head following an apparent struggle for the officer's Taser.
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Defense attorneys now get a chance to present their case in the trial of four men charged with planning to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. -
Barry Croft was loading gunpowder into a rubber balloon when his 10-year-old daughter walked up.
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Prosecutors played secret recordings to jurors today in the federal trial over the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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Before they met in person, before they trained, before they moved their conversation about toppling “tyrants” to an encrypted chat app, they had Facebook, prosecutors say. -
A federal trial began Tuesday in Grand Rapids for four men charged with conspiring to kidnap the governor.
