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We're bringing media back.
News across the country is dying and the model is not coming back. We built a new one — real newsrooms that cover a community, a state capitol or an industry the way it used to be covered. We started in Texas. We're just getting going.
Their headlines
National. Clickbait. The same story on every site.
Written for the algorithm, not the reader. The local coverage got cut years ago — the Friday night game, the new business on Main Street, the agency that just changed the rules.
Our headlines
The real stories nobody covers anymore.
99% of what happens in a community or state capitol never gets a headline. We build the platforms to cover it all — the game, the ribbon-cutting, the budget vote, the rulemaking — for the people who live with it.
Dispatch Platforms designs, launches, and operates news platforms, podcasts, shows, data, and distribution assets for a specific audience.
Recent coverage · The Texas Dispatch
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About us
Local news is dying. The model is broken. We're innovating to bring news back.
For years the news business has been quietly dropping the coverage people actually wanted: high school sports, local events, local business, the state agencies and the statehouse that set the rules everyone lives under. What's left is national, viral, and the same on every site. Dispatch Platforms exists to bring the rest back — and we've built the platform to do it in any community, any state capitol, any industry.
We are the company behind The Texas Dispatch, The Austin Dispatch, and The Houston Dispatch, and the shows and assets that run alongside them. Each is its own publication, with local editorial control, local personalities, and built for the local community it serves.
The model
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Cover it all
The game, the ribbon-cutting, the agency board, the committee hearing, the new business on the corner. If it happens where our readers live, it gets covered.
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99% never gets a headline. We write it.
Most of what happens in a state capitol or a city hall goes unreported. Our newsrooms are built to report it — daily, from the source, in plain language.
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One platform, any community
Each publication is its own title with its own readers. Behind every one is the same platform — the newsroom systems, the studio, the distribution — so a new market launches in months, not years.
Our platforms
The Dispatch family, today.
Three publications, and the shows, newsletters and research they produce.
Statewide · Policy
The Texas Dispatch
Daily coverage of Texas state government — agencies, boards, committees and the Capitol — built on the documents those bodies actually publish. For the people who make and move state policy.
Productions
Texas Talks
Titans of Texas
Future of Texas
Hemp in Texas
AI & Policy
Research
Texas Prosperity Indexlaunching Nov. 8, 2026
Local · Austin
The Austin Dispatch
A publication built for Austin — city hall, the county, the school districts and the people who live with their decisions. Its own masthead, its own newsroom, the same standard.
Launching soon
Local · Houston
The Houston Dispatch
A publication built for Houston and Harris County — local government, the port, the industries that run the region, and the readers who need to understand them.
Coming 2027
More markets are in development. If your audience isn't on this list yet, that's the conversation to have with us below.
Where we're going
We started in Texas. We won't stop there.
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01 · Done
Texas
The Texas Dispatch: complete coverage of state government, plus five shows and a newsletter from our Austin studio.
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02 · Now
Texas metros
The Austin Dispatch launching now. The Houston Dispatch in 2027. Dallas and San Antonio to follow.
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03 · Next
Across the country
A statehouse and a city at a time. The platform travels; the coverage doesn't change.
What we build
Three kinds of platforms.
Local
Fill the gap.
The local paper stopped covering the school board, the Friday night game and the business that just opened downtown. We build a publication for that city — its own name, its own reporters, its own readers — and cover all of it again.
The Austin Dispatch · The Houston Dispatch
Policy
Complete government coverage.
Not just the session and the headline bills. Every agency, board and commission, the interim hearings, the rulemakings, the contracts — the 99% of state government that never makes the news, covered daily.
The Texas Dispatch
White label
Reach your industry or your customers.
A publication, show or newsletter built for the audience you need — under your name or ours — and run by the same newsroom, studio and systems that run the Dispatch titles.
Built to order
The studios
Every Dispatch title gets a studio.
The Texas Dispatch produces five shows from its Austin studio — Texas Talks, Titans of Texas, Future of Texas, Hemp in Texas and AI & Policy — with the officeholders, agency heads, founders and advocates shaping the state. Studios for The Austin Dispatch and The Houston Dispatch are next, built on the same model.
The team
Built by people who've run newsrooms, not just read about them.
Michael Searle
Chief Executive Officer
Brad Swail
Chief Media Officer
Charles Blain
Chief Technology Officer
Find out what we can build for you.
Talk to usContact
Tell us who you need to reach.
A city that needs a newsroom. An industry that needs a publication. A show or a newsletter for an audience nobody else reaches. Tell us the audience and we'll tell you what we can build. We reply within two business days.
Austin, Texas