The phrase "according to a dispatch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referencing information or news that has been communicated through a formal report or message, often in a journalistic or official context.
Example: "According to a dispatch from the front lines, the situation has escalated significantly."
Alternatives: "as reported in a dispatch" or "based on a dispatch".
According to a dispatch from Berlin, he was found hanged in a Paris prison cell after his arrest by the French, who turned him over to the Nazis.
Mrs. Merkel said this was a matter "of the defense of our ideals," according to a dispatch from the German-language service of The Associated Press.
Many Germans, meanwhile, remember "how the Stasi," the former East German secret police, "abused information to destroy people's lives," according to a dispatch from the American Embassy in Berlin.
If this industry exists, we think it reached its nadir last Thurs., when, according to a dispatch in the Times, a TV crew in Little Rock "egged on" white students in their walkout at Central High School".
According to a dispatch in the Times of November 16, it is proposed to transform the area into a vast open-air museum, containing reconstructions of the most important monuments of each period.
Kim's first public comments about last week's test came in a visit to the country's military headquarters, where he called the explosion "a self-defensive step" meant to protect the region "from the danger of nuclear war caused by the US-led imperialists," according to a dispatch on Sunday from the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Blair also championed two large business deals in the West Bank and Gaza involving telecoms and gas extraction which stood to benefit corporate clients of JP Morgan, according to a Dispatches investigation to be broadcast on Monday night.
At least half of the shadow cabinet are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), according to a Dispatches programme being screened on Channel 4. The programme-makers describe the CFI as "beyond doubt the most well- connected and probably the best funded of all Westminster lobbying groups".
MIKHAIL S. GORBACHEV has a new spokesman, according to a Reuters dispatch from Moscow.
According to a June 1928 dispatch, experts were still hopeful that Roald Amundsen, the great polar explorer, would be found.
According to a Reuters dispatch from Tokyo, the new Government rule has been supplemented by another change in the investment practices at major Japanese insurance companies.
