Mother Jones (magazine)

==History==
For the first five years after its inception in 1976,<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|title=Mother Jones Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-cDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3|access-date=November 23, 2015|date=November 1992|journal=Mother Jones|page=3|issn=0362-8841|last1 = Jones|first1 = Mother}}</ref> ''Mother Jones'' operated with an editorial board, and members of the board took turns serving as managing editor for one-year terms. People who served on the editorial team during those years included [[Adam Hochschild]], [[Paul Jacobs (activist)|Paul Jacobs]], [[Richard Parker (economist)|Richard Parker]], Deborah Johnson, [[Jeffrey Bruce Klein]], Mark Dowie, Amanda Spake, Zina Klapper, and [[Deirdre English]]. According to Hochschild, Parker, "who worked as both editor and publisher, saw to it that ''Mother Jones'' took the best of what could be learned from the world of commercial publishing".<ref name="about">{{cite web|last=Hochschild|first=Adam|title=The History of Mother Jones|url=https://www.motherjones.com/about/what-mother-jones/our-history|access-date=October 19, 2012}}</ref>

[[Russ Rymer]] was named 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),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/07/haven.htm |title=Domestic Violence: A Special Report|work=Mother Jones |date=July 2005|access-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref> and the role of religion in politics (December 2005).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/toc/2005/12/index.html |title=Contents |work=Mother Jones|date=December 2005|access-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref>

In August 2006, [[Monika Bauerlein]] and [[Clara Jeffery]] were promoted from within to become co-editors of the magazine. Bauerlein and Jeffery, who had served as interim editors between Cohn and Rymer, were also chiefly responsible for some of the biggest successes of the magazine in the past several years, including a package on [[ExxonMobil climate change controversy|ExxonMobil's funding of climate-change "deniers"]] (May/June 2005)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/world_burns.html |title=As The World Burns |work=Mother Jones |date=May 2005 |access-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref> that was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Public Interest reporting; a package on the rapid decline in the health of the ocean (March/April 2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2006/03/oceans_index.html |title=The Last Days of the Ocean |work=Mother Jones |date=March 2006 |access-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref> and the magazine's massive Iraq War Timeline interactive database.<ref name="Lie By Lie">{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/ |title=Lie By Lie |work=Mother Jones |access-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref>

As the magazine's first post–baby-boomer editors, Bauerlein and Jeffery used a new investigative team of senior and young reporters to increase original reporting, web-based database tools,{{clarify|date=April 2015}} and blog commentary on MotherJones.com. The cover of their first issue (November 2006) asked: "Evolve or Die: Can humans get past denial and deal with global warming?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/toc/2006/11/index.html |title=Mother Jones November/December 2006 Issue |work=Mother Jones |access-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/commentary/ednote/2006/11/editors_note.html |title=Editors' Note |work=Mother Jones |date=November–December 2006 |access-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref> In 2015, Bauerlein became CEO, and Jeffery became sole editor in chief.<ref name="pressrelease"/>

[[David Corn]], former Washington editor for ''The Nation'', became bureau chief of the magazine's newly established D.C. bureau in 2007.<ref name="observer.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.observer.com/2007/mother-jones-lures-david-corn-nation|title=Mother Jones Lures David Corn From The Nation|work=[[The New York Observer]]|date=October 2, 2007|access-date=November 4, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006185727/http://www.observer.com/2007/mother-jones-lures-david-corn-nation|archive-date=October 6, 2008}}</ref> Other D.C. staff have included ''Washington Monthly'' contributing editor Stephanie Mencimer, former ''[[Village Voice]]'' correspondent [[James Ridgeway]], and [[Adam Serwer]] from ''[[The American Prospect]]''.

[[Laurene Powell Jobs]] has donated to ''Mother Jones'' by way of her LLC, [[Emerson Collective]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sarah McBride |last2=Gerry Smith |title=Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs Turned Her LLC Into a VC Machine |url= https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-25/billionaire-laurene-powell-jobs-turned-her-llc-into-a-vc-machine |access-date=6 September 2020 |work=[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] |date=25 April 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190429203707/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-25/billionaire-laurene-powell-jobs-turned-her-llc-into-a-vc-machine |archive-date=29 April 2019 |quote=Powell Jobs has said she finds the demise of local news particularly troubling. That concern prompted Emerson to not just take stakes in media organizations but to donate to nonprofits like the Marshall Project, Mother Jones}}</ref>

In December 2023, ''Mother Jones'' announced that it would be combining with [[The Center for Investigative Reporting]].<ref name="2024NYT">{{cite news |last1=Mullin |first1=Benjamin |title=Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/business/media/center-for-public-integrity-financial-problems.html |access-date=March 1, 2024 |work=New York Times |date=February 28, 2024}}</ref>