Eugenio Mulero

Adjunct Faculty

media, journalism

In Washington, where the rhythms of Congress thrum like an overworked HVAC system, Professor Mulero moves with the quiet assurance of someone who has spent years listening closely to the machinery. He is the Capitol Agenda congressional analyst on Road Dog Trucking Radio, a program on SiriusXM where truckers, lobbyists, and the occasional insomniac turn to him for clarity on the nation’s infrastructure debates. His voice — steady, unhurried, faintly amused — has become a familiar presence on Channel 146, a frequency where policy meets asphalt.

Mulero’s path to this peculiar corner of American political life began in newsrooms that valued both precision and stamina. He covered Congress for Transport Topics, politics for HuffPost, and transportation policy for E&E News, each role sharpening his instinct for the subtle ways power reveals itself in committee rooms and regulatory filings. Earlier, at CQ Roll Call, The Arizona Republic, and the Daily Record, he learned the craft’s more elemental lessons: how to write quickly, how to listen carefully, and how to remain calm when the story refuses to cooperate.

A two‑time Scripps Howard fellow, Mulero has published features in USA Today, National Journal, and The New York Times, and contributed to The Almanac of American Politics, a volume that treats congressional biography with the seriousness of a national archive. His colleagues speak of him as a journalist who notices the details others overlook — the phrasing in a subcommittee memo, the tension in a markup, the way a single amendment can reveal a lawmaker’s entire worldview.

Mulero is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, and his reporting on transportation policy and national politics has earned multiple awards. Yet he carries these distinctions lightly, as if they were simply artifacts collected along the way rather than milestones.

In 2025, he co‑authored “From Roadeo to TDC: A History of the National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Driving Championships (Second Edition)”, a book that chronicles a world where precision driving becomes a kind of athletic discipline. He also co-hosted the award-winning “Road to NTDC” online series and podcast for PodWheels, documenting the culture and quiet heroism of professional drivers with the attentiveness of an ethnographer.

In conversation, Mulero has the air of someone who understands that the country’s infrastructure — its roads, its institutions, its politics — is held together not by grand gestures but by the steady work of people who rarely appear in headlines. He reports on them with the same patience and curiosity he brings to everything else, tracing the contours of a nation in motion.

Courses Taught

Political Journalism

Education

Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism

Seton Hall University