Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo ) is one of the most successful regional left-liberal magazines in the United States. It is published by the Foundation for National Progress in San Francisco. The editorial team is led by Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery. The bi-monthly magazine with a circulation of about 230,000 booklets was Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, an American trade unionist, named and has six times won the National Magazine Award ( the most important magazine price in the U.S.).

Among the founders and the editorial team of the first year was Adam Hochschild; 1981-1986 was Deirdre English, the editor in chief. The successor to Michael Moore was only a few months present and left the editorial in the dispute. He had, after a story about the closing of a General Motors plant in his hometown of Flint ( Michigan) was rejected, set the face of the former GM worker Ben Hamper on the front page, what was the reason of termination as specified by Moore. After specifying the former Mother Jones journalist David Talbot Moore was unpopular with other employees because they valued his management style as autocratic.

Moore's successor was Douglas Foster. He was replaced by Jeffrey Bruce Klein, more focused on federal policy issues, including about the role of the financing of election campaigns and reports on the tobacco industry in 1992. In 1999, Roger Cohn in the executive chair, the stronger dealt in different parts of the country with socio-political issues; under him was Mother Jones 2001 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. After a short essayistic oriented interlude with Russ Rymer Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery came as editors in chief at the helm, who had already made in the editorial office with investigative contributions a name.

The authors include, among others, Barbara Ehrenreich, Paul Berman, Molly Ivins, Ralph Nader, Randy Shilts, Marc Cooper, Paula Poundstone, David Corn and James Ridgeway (the latter in the Washington DC office ).

A website launched Mother Jones in November 1993 and is temporarily present in the radio. Since March 2005, the website of Mother Jones are affiliated with several blogs.