Upstate Dispatch

Description

Upstate Dispatch was formed in September 2014, and back then there were very few print or online resources for visitors and transplants to the Catskills. Before starting Upstate Dispatch, I had been working for several local news outlets and magazines that struggled to exist and ultimately shuttered for good, or changed direction. I still wanted to write, so I simply started my own magazine. Journalism is a calling and connects the writer with their local community and I sought that connection. At the time, I billed UD as a newsmagazine devoted to the city folk who are making the country their home and building businesses here, written by a writer with a background in business. It was to be

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