Mother Jones is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reports on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Clara Jeffery serves as an editor. Steve Katz has been a publisher since 2010. Monika Bauerlein has been CEO since 2015. Mother Jones is published by The Foundation for National Progress.
The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist and a staunch opponent of child labor.
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History
During the first five years after it was founded in 1976, Mother Jones operated with an editorial board, and council members took turns serving as managing editor for a year. The people who served in the editorial team during those years included Adam Hochschild, Paul Jacobs, Richard Parker, Deborah Johnson, Jeffrey Bruce Klein, Mark Dowie, Amanda Spake, Zina Klapper, and Deirdre English. According to Hochschild, Parker, "who works as an editor and publisher, ensures that Mother Jones takes the best of what can be learned from the commercial publishing world."
Michael Moore, who has owned and published Flint, Michigan-based Michigan Voice for ten years, followed the English language and edited Mother Jones for several months, until he was dismissed for a disputed excuse. Matt Labash of Weekly Standards reports that this is because it refuses to print articles criticizing the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua - a view supported by The Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn, but rejected by Hochschild and others in the magazine.
Moore believes that he was fired for his reaction to challenge the publisher's refusal to allow him to cover news about GM's plant closure in Flint. Moore also felt that he did not have the opportunity to form a magazine, and that many articles printed during his time as an editor were articles that had been commissioned by Deirdre English.
After being fired in 1986, Moore sued Mother Jones for $ 2 million for a wrongful termination, but settled with the magazine insurance company for $ 58,000- $ 8000 more than the initial offer.
Russ Rymer was appointed editor-in-chief in early 2005, and under his tenure the magazine published more essays and extensive packages of articles on domestic violence (July/August 2005), and the role of religion in politics (December 2005).
In August 2006, Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery were promoted from within to become co-editors of the magazine. Bauerlein and Jeffery, who have been interim editors between Cohn and Rymer, are also primarily responsible for some of the magazine's greatest successes in recent years, including an ExxonMobil funding package for climate change deniers (May/June 2005) nominated for the National Magazine Award for Public Interest reporting; a package of rapid declines in ocean health (March/April 2006), and an interactive database of the massive Timeline of the Iraq War.
As the first post-baby boomer editor of the magazine, Bauerlein and Jeffery used a new investigative team of senior and young reporters to improve original reporting, web-based database tools, and blog comments on MotherJones.com. The cover of their first edition (November 2006) asked: "Evolve or Die: Can humans overcome rejection and face global warming?" In 2015, Bauerlein became CEO and Jeffery became the sole editor.
David Corn, a political journalist and former editor of Washington for The Nation, is the bureau chief of the newly established D.C bureau in the magazine. Other D.C staff have included contributing editor of the Washington Monthly Stephanie Mencimer, Village Voice's former correspondent James Ridgeway, and Adam Serwer from The American Prospect .
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Awards
Mother Jones has been a finalist for 31 National Magazine Awards, winning seven times (including three times for General Excellence in 2001, 2008 and 2010).
Park Center for Independent Media named the fifth annual Izzy Award-winning Mother Jones in April 2013 for "special achievements in independent media," for reporting 2012, including his analysis of gun violence in the United States, the coverage of the candidate's dark funding , and the release of Mitt Romney's video stating that 47 percent of Americans see themselves as victims and dependent on government.
In August 2013, co-editors of Mother Jones, Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery won the PEN Award/Nora Magid for Editing Magazine. Also in 2010, Mother Jones won the Online News Association's Award for Online Topical Reporting, and in 2011 won the Utne Reader Independent Press Award for Excellence.
In 2017, Mother Jones won the Magazine of the Year award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
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In addition to print magazine stories, MotherJones.com offers original content reported seven days a week. During the 2008 presidential election campaign, MotherJones.com journalist David Corn was the first to report John McCain's remarks that "it would be okay with him" if the United States military stayed in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" - that what should be judged is not its simple presence (American troops are not controversially placed in South Korea, Japan, Europe, Bosnia, and many other countries as a facet of American multilateralism), but how many victims suffered. Also in 2008, MotherJones.com was the first outlet to report to Beckett Brown International, a security company that spies on environmental groups for companies.
Webby Award Winners in 2005 and 2006 for Politics, MotherJones.com has provided extensive coverage of both Gulf wars, presidential election campaigns, and other key events in the past decade. Mother Jones began posting his magazine's content on the Internet in November 1993, the country's first public interest magazine to do so. In the March/April 1996 issue, this magazine published the first of Mother Jones 400, the largest individual donor list to a federal political campaign. Print magazine lists 400 donors according to the thumbnail profile and the amount they contribute. MotherJones.com (then known as MoJo Wire) lists donors in a searchable database.
In the 2006 elections, MotherJones.com was the first to break the story about the use of robocalling, the story that TPM Muckraker 
In popular culture
In the 2004 film The Ladykillers, the character of Garth Pancake (played by JK Simmons), a liberal activist who became a criminal, attempted to flee with $ 1.6 million in cash that he and his colleagues stole from the ferry gambling. boat. Pancake emptied the bag full of stolen money and filled it with a collection of Mother Jones magazines.
The magazine is mentioned in Carl Hiaasen's Tourist Season novel, when two antagonists are riding in a car talking about the publicity promised by the main antagonist.
In 2016, Mother Jones published an article about the white supremacy of Richard B. Spencer entitled "Meet The Dapper White Nationalist That Tries Even If Trump Loses." The article receives criticism, and Mother Jones then removes the tweet that promotes it and removes the term "dapper" from the title. Video game 2017 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus featured a newspaper article entitled "Meet Young Young KKK Leaders With a Message of Hope". The Kotaku video game site said the addition was "clearly a shot at Mother Jones and every other media outlet that decides to start getting cutesy about white supremacy."
References
External links
- MotherJones.com
- "Foundation for Internal Progress Internal Revenue Service". ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer .
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