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Mother Jones (magazine)
''Mother Jones'' (abbreviated ''MoJo'') is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture. Clara Jeffery serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine. Monika Bauerlein has been the CEO since 2015. ''Mother Jones'' is published by the Foundation for National Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist, socialist advocate, and ardent opponent of child labor. History For the first five years after its inception in 1976, ''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, Richard Parker, Deborah Johnson, Jeffrey Bruce Klein, Mark Dowie, Amanda Spake, Zina Klapper, and Deirdre E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Jeffery
Clara Jeffery (born August 25, 1967) is the editor in chief of ''Mother Jones''. Career Jeffery was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Arlington, Virginia, and attended the Sidwell Friends School (1985), before going to Carleton College (1989). She earned a Master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995, Jeffery was a staff editor and writer at ''Washington City Paper''. She was a senior editor at ''Harper's Magazine'' (1995–2002), where she edited six articles nominated for a National Magazine Award, including essays by Barbara Ehrenreich that became ''Nickel and Dimed''. She became deputy editor of ''Mother Jones'', a position she held for four years, and was promoted to co-editor in August 2006. Jeffery was promoted to editor-in-chief in May, 2015. Together, Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein have aimed to put greater emphasis on staff-generated, daily news and original reporting. The magazine received a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish-American
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James Ridgeway
James Fowler Ridgeway (November 1, 1936February 13, 2021) was an American investigative journalist. In a career spanning six decades, he covered many topics including automobile industry safety, American universities, far-right movements including the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazism, and campaigns against solitary confinement. He was the Washington, D.C., Washington correspondent for ''The Village Voice'' for over 30 years between the mid-1970s to mid-2000s, and had also worked for ''The New Republic, and Mother Jones (magazine), Mother Jones.'' He had also contributed to magazines and newspapers including ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''The Economist'' among others. Early life Ridgeway was born on November 1, 1936, in Auburn, New York, to Florence (née Fowler) and George Ridgeway. His father was a professor and historian at Wells College, in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, Aurora, New York. His father had served as a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Voice
''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the ''Voice'' began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It ceased publication in 2017, although its online archives remained accessible. After an ownership change, the ''Voice'' reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021. Over its 63 years of publication, ''The Village Voice'' received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award. ''The Village Voice'' hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, artist Greg Tate, and film critics Andrew Sarris, Jonas Mekas and J. Hoberman. In October 2015, ''The Village Voice'' changed ownership and severed all ties with former parent company Voice Media Group (VMG). The ''Voice'' announced on August 22, 2017, that it would cease pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Corn
David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American political journalist and author. He is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for ''Mother Jones'' and is best known as a cable television commentator. Corn worked at ''The Nation'' from 1987 to 2007, where he served as Washington editor. Early life and education Corn was raised in a Jewish family in White Plains, New York.Brown Alumni Magazine: "You Don't Have to Trust Me" by Stephanie Grace May/June 2013 He graduated from in 1977. He attended |
ExxonMobil Climate Change Controversy
Since the 1970s, ExxonMobil engaged in climate research, and later began lobbying, advertising, and grant making, some of which were conducted with the purpose of delaying widespread acceptance and action on global warming. From the late 1970s and through the 1980s, Exxon funded internal and university collaborations, broadly in line with the developing public scientific approach. From the 1980s to mid 2000s, the company was a leader in climate change denial, opposing regulations to curtail global warming. ExxonMobil funded organizations critical of the Kyoto Protocol and sought to undermine public opinion about the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Exxon helped to found and lead the Global Climate Coalition of businesses opposed to the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. More recently it has expressed support for a carbon tax and the Paris agreement. Early research From the late 1970s and through the 1980s, Exxon, one of pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Rymer
Russ Rymer (born May 17, 1952) is an American author and freelance journalist who has contributed articles to the ''New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The New Yorker'', ''National Geographic'', ''Harper's'', ''Smithsonian'', ''Vogue'', and ''Los Angeles Magazine'', among other publications. His first book, ''Genie, a Scientific Tragedy'' (HarperCollins, 1993), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won a Whiting Award. It was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary. His second book, about the American Beach community in Florida, was ''American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory'' (HarperCollins, 1998, re-subtitled ''American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power'' for the paperback edition). His third book and first novel, ''Paris Twilight'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013. In 2005, Russ Rymer became the editor-in-chief for ''Mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre English
Deirdre English (born 1948) is the former editor of ''Mother Jones'' and author of numerous articles for national publications and television documentaries. She has taught at the State University of New York and currently teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a faculty mentor at the Center for the Study of the Working Family at the Graduate School of Sociology. English is co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich, of ''For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice'' along with a number of pamphlets. She contributed essays to Susan Meiselas's photography book ''Carnival Strippers''. In 1991, her house burned down in the Oakland Hills Fire. Her mother is Fanita English Fanița English (born October 22, 1916 – January 18, 2022) was a Romanian-born American psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Personal life and education Fanita English was born October 22, 1916, in the city of Galați, Romania. Her parents were .... She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Bruce Klein
Jeffrey Bruce Klein (born January 15, 1948) is an investigative journalist who co-founded ''Mother Jones'' in 1976. For its first issue he found a piece that won a National Magazine Award. He forced the resignation of Ronald Reagan’s chief foreign policy advisor, Richard V. Allen, at the 1980 Republican National Convention. At the ''San Jose Mercury News'' in 1983–92, he investigated The Pentagon’s secret programs to dominate space. Susan Faludi began ''Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'' while working for Klein there. Returning in the 1990s to be ''Mother Jones''’ editor-in-chief, Klein directed exposés of Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, the top 400 political contributors in the U.S. and Donald Sipple, the Republicans' star image-maker. The investigative series on Speaker Gingrich led to his unprecedented public reprimand by the United States House of Representatives and a $300,000 fine. Klein made ''Mother Jones'' the first general-interest magazine to pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Parker (economist)
Richard Parker (born November 5, 1946) is an economist from the United States. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford, and has worked for the United Nations Development Programme. Parker co-founded ''Mother Jones'' magazine and is on the editorial board of ''The Nation''. He wrote the books ''The Myth of the Middle Class'', ''Mixed Signals: the Future of Global Television News'', and ''John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics''. Parker has held Marshall, Rockefeller, Danforth, Goldsmith, and Bank of America fellowships; and is lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he teaches courses on modern macroeconomic policy, as well as on the role of religion in American politics and public policy. In June 2008, Parker was elected the 26th President of the liberal political advocacy group Americans for Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jacobs (activist)
Paul Jacobs (August 24, 1918 – January 3, 1978) was a left-wing populist activist, journalist, and co-founder of ''Mother Jones'' magazine. In 1966, he signed a tax resistance vow to protest the Vietnam War. In 1968, Jacobs was the nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party for U.S. Senate from California. He received 1.31% of the vote. He is the subject of the 1980 political documentary '' Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang'', which details his investigation into government cover-up of the health hazards related to nuclear weapons testing Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine nuclear weapons' effectiveness, Nuclear weapon yield, yield, and explosive capability. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical information about how the weapons function, how detona ... in 1950s Nevada. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Paul 1918 births 1978 deaths 20th-century American non-fiction writers American activist journalists American investigative journali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild (; born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer. His best-known works include ''King Leopold's Ghost'' (1998), '' To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918'' (2011), ''Bury the Chains'' (2005), '' The Mirror at Midnight'' (1990), '' The Unquiet Ghost'' (1994), and '' Spain in Our Hearts'' (2016). Biography Adam Hochschild was born in New York City. His father, Harold Hochschild, was of German Jewish descent; his mother, Mary Marquand Hochschild, was a Protestant, and an uncle by marriage, Boris Sergievsky, was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force. His German-born paternal grandfather Berthold Hochschild founded the mining firm American Metal Company. Hochschild graduated from Harvard in 1963 with a BA in History and Literature. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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