{{BLP sources|date=June 2008}} {{Short description|CEO of Mother Jones}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2026}} thumb|{{center|Monika Bauerlein}} '''Monika Bauerlein''' (born 1965) is an American media executive who is the CEO of ''Mother Jones''. Previously she was co-editor of the title and, earlier in her career, a writer for other publications.
== Biography == Bauerlein was born in Germany, but has lived in several countries, including Italy, where her father, Heinz Bäuerlein, was a foreign correspondent. She came to America on a Fulbright scholarship and worked as a stringer for a variety of publications including Germany's ''Die Zeit'' and the Associated Press.<ref name="Nieman">{{cite web |title=Top Mother Jones executives Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery to receive I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence |url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/news/2019/04/top-mother-jones-executives-monika-bauerlein-and-clara-jeffery-to-receive-i-f-stone-medal-for-journalistic-independence/ |website=Nieman Foundation |access-date=20 May 2020 |date=8 April 2019 |archive-date=12 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312113147/https://nieman.harvard.edu/news/2019/04/top-mother-jones-executives-monika-bauerlein-and-clara-jeffery-to-receive-i-f-stone-medal-for-journalistic-independence/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Between 1991 and 2000, she was a writer, managing editor, and interim editor in chief at ''City Pages'', which became the sister paper to the ''Village Voice'' in Minneapolis/St. Paul in 1997.
Bauerlein was promoted to the position of ''Mother Jones'' CEO in May 2015, following the departure of Madeleine Buckingham; previously she was the magazine's co-editor. Bauerlein first came to ''Mother Jones'' in 2000, and has, together with editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery, dramatically expanded its political and investigative reportage, as well as spearheaded the magazine's new investigative team and Washington bureau.<ref name="Nieman"/>
Together, Bauerlein and Jeffery overhauled the website of ''Mother Jones,'' putting a greater emphasis on staff-generated, daily news and original reporting. During their tenure, the magazine won three National Magazine Awards, two for General Excellence. ''Mother Jones'' broke the "47 percent" story about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, credited by some with having a significant effect on the 2012 United States presidential election.<ref name="Nieman"/>
In August 2013, Bauerlein shared the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pen.org/2013-pennora-magid-award/|title=2013 PEN/Nora Magid Award|date=July 25, 2013|access-date=October 11, 2021|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026042559/https://pen.org/2013-pennora-magid-award/|url-status=live}}</ref> with Clara Jeffery for their work at ''Mother Jones''. The judges wrote: "Mother Jones under Jeffery and Bauerlein has been transformed from what was a respected—if-under-the-radar—indie publication to an internationally recognized powerhouse [...] whose writers and reporters often put more well-known and deep-pocketed news divisions to shame."
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==External links== * [https://www.motherjones.com/authors/monika-bauerlein Monika Bauerlein] at ''Mother Jones'' * ''[http://womensenews.org/story/journalist-the-month/061002/power-sharing-women-take-over-mother-jones Power Sharing Women Take Over Mother Jones]'' by J. Trout Lowen in ''Women's E-News,'' October 2, 2006 * "[https://web.archive.org/web/20150514173423/http://www.motherjones.com/about/press/mother-jones-names-monika-bauerlein-chief-executive-officer-clara-jeffery-editor-chief Mother Jones Names Monika Bauerlein Chief Executive Officer, Clara Jeffery Editor In Chief]"
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