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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Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the federal trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer. -
A second man has agreed to plead guilty in the federal case over the alleged conspiracy to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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More people died in Michigan in 2020 than were born. -
New data on COVID cases in Michigan continues to show signs of a plateau in the latest surge. -
A federal judge in Grand Rapids heard arguments Tuesday over which evidence can be admitted in the trial over the alleged plot to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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The shortest route to get a ship from Asia to the U.S. is through America's West Coast ports. But given the pileup there, some ships are going the long way through eastern Canada into the Great Lakes.
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The number of people with COVID in Michigan hospitals is once again rising. -
With just a few days left in 2021, Michigan is reporting more new cases of COVID-19 than ever before. -
The rising threat of the omicron variant in the U.S. has so far not changed Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s mind on the need for new statewide mandates. -
Michigan hospitals are seeing more COVID-19 patients than at any other time during the pandemic. At one Grand Rapids hospital, patients are doubled up in rooms and the staff is utterly exhausted.
