Mother Jones (magazine)
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| description | Political magazine |
| Area of Expertise | politics |
| language | English |
| First edition | February 1976 |
| Frequency of publication | Every two months |
| Sold edition | 233,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery |
| editor | Foundation For National Progress |
| Web link | motherjones.com |
| ISSN (print) | 0362-8841 |
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo ) is one of the most successful national left-liberal magazines in the United States . It is published by the Foundation for National Progress in San Francisco . The editorial team is headed by Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery . The bimonthly magazine with a circulation of around 230,000 issues was named after Mary Harris "Mother" Jones , an American trade unionist, and has won the National Magazine Award (the most important magazine award in the USA)six times.
content
The main focus of the MoJo is reflected in the print edition and on the homepage: In the sections Politics, Environment, Food, Media, Crime & Justice, Photos and Investigations, background articles and news from the respective areas are published.
development
Adam Hochschild was one of the founders and the editorial team in the early years ; from 1981 to 1986 Deirdre English was the editor-in-chief. The successor Michael Moore was only present for a few months and left the editorial team in a dispute. After a story about the closure of a General Motors plant in his hometown of Flint, Michigan , was turned down, he put the face of former GM worker Ben Hamper on the front page, which Moore said was the reason for the termination. According to former Mother Jones journalist David Talbot , Moore was unpopular with other employees because they viewed his managerial style as autocratic .
Moore's successor was Douglas Foster . In 1992 he was replaced by Jeffrey Bruce Klein , who was more concerned with federal political issues, including the role of campaign funding and reports on the tobacco industry. In 1999, Roger Cohn took the executive chair, who dealt more with socio-political issues in different parts of the country; under him Mother Jones received the 2001 National Magazine Award for General Excellence . After a short essay-oriented interlude with Russ Rymer , Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery came to the helm as editors-in-chief, who had already made a name for themselves in the editorial team with investigative articles.
The authors include Barbara Ehrenreich , Paul Berman , Shane Bauer , Molly Ivins , Ralph Nader , Randy Shilts , Marc Cooper , Paula Poundstone , David Corn and James Ridgeway (the latter in the Washington DC office).
Mother Jones started an internet presence in November 1993 and is also present on the radio from time to time. Since March 2005, the Mother Jones website has had several blogs attached.
Web links
- Mother Jones website
- Media: Bush, the gold donkey , article by Vera Görgen in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 28, 2004
Footnotes
- ↑ Mother Jones: What Is Mother Jones? (FAQ)
- ↑ Mother Jones: MoJo Wins National Magazine Award . May 1, 2008
- ^ American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME): National Magazine Awards Database of Past Winners and Finalists
- ^ Moore's criticism of the representation of Mother Jones on Salon.com and Talbot's response to Moore, July 1997 (English) on the homepage of salon.com. [1]
- ↑ Mother Jones: Blogs ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
