The East Wilco Insider has reached a milestone. The news magazine is starting its second year in print.
Our initial issue delivered to the communities of eastern Williamson County rolled off the press during the second quarter of 2022.
Look at how far we have come. In just the last year, EWI has broken stories about the fentanyl crisis, the tornado recovery, rising house prices associated with the emergence of Samsung Austin Semiconductor, a comprehensive look at area crime, updates on improvements to deadly roads, population growth, disappearing farms, overflowing animal shelters, the popularity of pickleball and more.
EWI focuses on technology, infrastructure, crime, education, government and new businesses and restaurants, as well as offering an arts and music calendar.
This monthly magazine isn’t possible without the hard work of EWI’s designers, who create its amazing look.
A lot of credit for keeping the lights on and getting the bills paid goes to the sales staff.
Of course, I can’t forget our excellent journalists, including Edie Zuvanich, Susan Yerkes, Travis E. Poling, Nicole Lessin, Grace Horvath, Catherine Parker, Fernando Castro, Ronda Templeton, Angela Covo and a few others.
Also due a tip of the hat is my colleague, Area Editor Jason Hennington, whose institutional memory and sound advice have proven invaluable.
Let me also praise my fellow members of the executive team at parent company Granite Media Partners Inc. for realizing there is a need for a general, deep-dive news magazine that serves this region’s diverse audience.
Finally, and most important, we’re grateful to our readers and the businesses supporting EWI. They inspire us to keep serving the information needs of our audience without fear or bias.
Our dedication to bringing the most comprehensive, free hyperlocal news to the communities we call home and the readers we call neighbors hasn’t changed since that initial edition came out with a semiconductor chip on the cover.
That iconic image more than anything else really symbolizes East Wilco and its emergence as an important site geopolitically for Texas, the United States and humanity itself in the 21st century.
As we’ve noted in our pages, the fertile fields of the Blackland Prairie that have yielded so much agricultural bounty over the decades are today producing a new kind of crop — hightech industries that will reduce our dependence on foreign markets and power America’s future.
Not only in print, but the reach of the East Wilco Insider via its online presence goes far and wide, as shown by the recent arrival of a Korean Broadcasting System crew taping a documentary on “the Samsung Effect,” directly inspired by a story of the same name in this magazine.
Stick with us and let’s see what the next year will bring as we grow together.
Thomas Edwards
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