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Jasmine Shackleford was a reporter intern with the Brainerd Dispatch for the summer of 2025. She is a student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she is pursuing a degree in journalism. She has previously lived in upper Michigan, northern Wisconsin, California and Minnesota.…| Brainerd Dispatch
Our newsroom occasionally reports stories under a byline of "staff." Often, the "staff" byline is used when rewriting basic news briefs that originate from official sources, such as a city press release about a road closure, and which require little or no reporting. At times, this byline is used…| Brainerd Dispatch