Dear Mule Design, the expanding Evening-Edition team, our loyal readers and listeners –

I am excited to be here, to be joining this incredible team as your new editor-in-chief. In fact, I have had a stupidly silly grin across my face for hours as I have been thinking about what to write.

I remember when I first came across your project last year. A friend from my news design world, Justin Ferrell, was on Northwestern campus for a few days and stopped in for a chat. He asked if I had seen this project and, ever since, I have admired you from afar. In fact, my Knight Lab colleagues and I have often spoken about, even written about, your impressive and ambitious beginning, going from an off-the-cuff Twitter exchange to proof-of-concept in about a week. Hot damn!

And now, dear team, [internal squeal] … I am so proud to tell the world that we are going to work together.

I am so looking forward to exploring the potential of this project as we go on an adventure. All new publications take some time to find their editorial voice, to find their stride, and I have enjoyed your fearless approach to the highly competitive journalism startup community. Perhaps we’ll pivot to something more locally focused. Perhaps we’ll shoot for something more dinner-party-esque. Wherever we end up, we are going to have a ton of fun getting there because we want be the ones who always have five great stories to deliver at 5 p.m.

And you, our loyal Evening-Edition readers and podcast listeners, I am looking forward to getting to know you better. We are so grateful that you like us and we would love to know more about how we have been doing so far. So please, don’t be shy. Reach out to me on Twitter, @jmm, or email us and let us know what you think.

Now, let’s get back to work.

Miranda Mulligan

Editor-In-Chief

Evening-Edition