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Mar 12, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Clara Jeffery |Monika Bauerlein
Our friend and colleague Kevin Drum passed away on March 7. He was 66 and had been living with multiple myeloma for 11 years, and being the extraordinary journalist he was, he had taken readers along on the journey, sharing health updates on his blog. They were, in trademark style, matter-of-fact, data-driven, and wry; the last one included, like so many of his posts, a chart he’d made (this one to track the status of his C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation).
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Monika Bauerlein
The day before the German election, I was sobbing uncontrollably over a video that my German family sent me. It shows a table on a sidewalk, set with pretty porcelain and a sign “Feel like coffee like at Grandma’s?” As passersby sit down, a young man with a guitar carefully pours a cup and offers cream and sugar.
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Monika Bauerlein
NowMerz’s centre-right CDU leads in Germany’s federal elections, exit polls showIncumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz has conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called “a bitter election result” on Sunday. NowGermany’s Merz vows ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be deadElection winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Monika Bauerlein
National newspaper endorsements probably don’t make much of a difference in presidential elections (local ones are a very different story). So in terms of the outcome on November 5, the billionaire owners of the Washington Post and LA Times spiking endorsements of Kamala Harris that their respective editorial boards had already drafted probably won’t move the needle.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Monika Bauerlein
Posted Monday, October 28, 2024 12:54 pm National newspaper endorsements probably don’t make much of a difference in presidential elections (local ones are a very different story). So in terms of the outcome on Nov.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Monika Bauerlein
For a personal tribute to Don Barlett, read “‘Hello, I’m Don Barlett and I Liked Your Story’” from our CEO emeritus, Robert Rosenthal. It’s not often that an obituary truly surprises you, but the other day it happened to me in the best possible way. The person who passed wasn’t a relative, friend, or close colleague. But he did play a key role at one point in my life, by showing me what journalism can do—and often fails to.
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May 15, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Monika Bauerlein |Brian Hiatt
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Where to begin? The most obvious place is with another cup of coffee, and November’s election. This is Mother Jones, after all, and doing investigative journalism that can advance democracy and justice is why we exist and what we’ve been doing for 48 years. You can bet we have much to say (and report on) about the battle between authoritarianism and democracy that’s playing out before our eyes.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Monika Bauerlein
It’s been a brutal month for journalism. How many times have I written that sentence now, and how many more times will I need to write it? Enough that I wasn’t going to write it again, despite the headlines about an “extinction-level event” for our profession. But as the immortal xkcd reminds us, you must weigh in when someone is wrong on the internet, and there’s a particular kind of wrong that surfaces at moments like this: the dream of a savior.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Monika Bauerlein
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:50 am This is a moment of tremendous urgency for journalism and for democracy. By merging, we can shine a light into more dark corners, and reach more people with investigative reporting on the issues that matter most.” The merger of two of the country’s most storied and trusted investigative news organizations, Mother Jones and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), took effect Feb. 1, forming a news outlet that reaches millions of people each...
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Steve Dubb |Monika Bauerlein |Astra Taylor |Isaiah Thompson
At NPQ, we have long tracked changes in the business model of journalism, including the rise of nonprofit journalism. Not only are we a part of that industry, but it is an industry that is changing rapidly—and the implications of those changes are significant for journalism, the social justice fields we cover, and the future of democracy. In this interview, Monika Bauerlein, who has worked at Mother Jones since 2000 and has been its CEO since 2015, shares her perspective.
