| Description: | A nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political and social justice reporting. Paid circulation today is 240,000. |
| Begun: | February 1976 (the magazine’s first issue) |
| Website: | http://motherjones.com/ |
| Office Location: | Backtalk, Mother Jones, 222 Sutter St., Suite 600 San Francisco, CA |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization (Foundation for National Progress) |
| Founder: | Adam Hochschild, Jeffrey Klein, Richard Parker |
| Executive Director: | Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jefferey (executive editors) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 31 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 31 |
| Annual operating budget: | $9,300,400 (2011) |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No |
| Major donors disclosed: | No |
| INN Member: | No |
| Awards: | National Magazine Award for General Excellence (2010), Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence Journalism (2009), People’s Choice Webby Award for Politics (2005, 2006) |
| Contact: | http://motherjones.com/about/contact or 415-321-1700 |
New Economic Models
Investigative News Network
This group of more than 20 nonprofit news organizations was formed in July 2009 to organize the best investigative reporting sites out there. Workshop executive editor Charles Lewis, one of the original four board members, announces the group's first CEO, Kevin Davis.
World Investigative Reporting Enterprises
Inside the iLab, we are incubating WIRE, a new, online social utility platform bringing together the best investigative journalists in the world. WIRE will publish original, multimedia work. This highest quality journalism will be organized, made digitally accessible and searchable and disseminated in an entirely new way, via social networks.
iLab Projects
Citizen journalists work undercover in North Korea to show daily life
Japanese journalists have been training citizens in North Korea to take audio and video recordings of everyday life in an effort to document the hardships, including food shortages, prevalent there. Meet the man behind the training, Jiro Ishimaru.
