Dispatches is a defunct quarterly political magazine, founded in 2008, by photographer Gary Knight, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum, and pharmaceutical executive Dr. Simba Gill.

With its signature plain brown paper cover, its small book-size format, and at almost 200 pages in length, Dispatches did not resemble a typical news magazine.

[1] Nor did the magazines' emphasis on printed word, (as opposed to online content,) reflect the general trends in the media industry.

[2] Furthermore, Dispatches was distinguished by its use of long-form journalism and photo-essay, to explore a single topic of international relevance in each issue.

In its first issue, "In America", travel writer Paul Theroux highlighted the lack of depth in the media's coverage of events such as the Iraq War.