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Monika Bauerlein
Monika Bauerlein (born 1965 in Germany) is the co-Edi- Village Voice sister paper in Minneapolis/St. Paul. There,
tor of Mother Jones magazine. [1] (Clara Jeffery is the she wrote in-depth features that won a range of journal-
other co-editor.) Bauerlein was promoted to the position ism awards and were reprinted in anthologies and other
in August 2006, following the departure of Russ Rymer; publications.
previously she was the magazine’s Investigative Editor. Bauerlein has also written for More magazine, Sierra
Bauerlein first came to Mother Jones magazine in 2000, magazine [2], the Utne Reader [3], the Huffington Post,
and she has focused on developing political and inves- and Germany’s Die Zeit.
tigative reportage and has spearheaded the magazine’s
new investigative team and Washington bureau.
Together, Bauerlein and Jeffery have overhauled
External links
Mother Jones magazine’s website, putting a much greater • "Bio of Editor-in-Chief Monika Bauerlein," Mother
emphasis on staff-generated, daily news and original re- Jones [4]
porting. • "Power Sharing Women Take Over Mother Jones,"
Bauerlein was born in Germany, but has lived in a va- Women’s E-News [5]
riety of countries, including Italy, as her father worked as Persondata
a foreign correspondent. She came to American on a Ful- Name Bauerlein, Monika
bright scholarship.
As a freelancer in New York and Washington, D.C. in Alternative names
the late 1980s, she covered the negotiations to end the Short description
first Gulf War and the 1988 presidential campaign; during Date of birth 1965
graduate school at the University of Minnesota, she filed
Place of birth
stories for the Associated Press and a range of newspa-
pers, magazines, and public radio programs, with an em- Date of death
phasis on politics and environmental coverage. Place of death
Between 1989 and 2000, Bauerlein was a writer, man-
aging editor, and interim editor in chief at City Pages, the
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