If you have the Steam version, did you try verifying local files?
Try lowering the game resolution, switch to windowed or fake fullscreen mode, lower graphics settings (ie texture quality) and see if that helps with the crash.
A couple people have run into problems with the newspaper (see
Help with a crash, please?).
If that doesn't help, please email supportdc@larian.com, with a description of the problem and the report.zip file generated by the
Dragon Commander support tool.