About: Mother Jones is pleased to announce that Jonathan Rabinovitz, formerly a New York Times reporter and a senior editor at the Industry Standard, has been hired as the magazine’s investigative editor.

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January 29, 2004
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Mother Jones Magazine Hires Investigative Editor

Mother Jones is pleased to announce that Jonathan Rabinovitz, formerly a New York Times reporter and a senior editor at the Industry Standard, has been hired as the magazine's investigative editor. His responsibilities include overseeing major research and reporting projects, as well as directing the magazine's Washington coverage and editing its main news section and general feature articles.

Rabinovitz started at the Times as a stringer in the San Francisco bureau covering the Loma Prieta earthquake, served as a reporter on the paper's metropolitan desk from 1992 to 1998, and spent his last four years as its Hartford, Connecticut, bureau chief. He regularly wrote about government and national policy, most notably special reports on the removal of the severely developmentally disabled from institutions and the efforts by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to improve protections for whistleblowers.

After resigning from the Times to return home to California, Rabinovitz spent two years as a senior writer and senior editor at the Industry Standard, a now-defunct weekly business magazine. There he covered the bubble in venture capital funding and the crash in the financial markets, supervised staff writers who covered e-commerce, and handled special projects. Most recently, he worked as the editor of Stanford Lawyer, the magazine of Stanford Law School.

"We are delighted to bring on board a journalist of Jonathan's caliber," said Roger Cohn, editor-in-chief of Mother Jones. "He brings a wealth of experience and a journalistic rigor that will help round out the very talented team of editors that we have here."

A graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Harvard College, where he was an editor of the Harvard Crimson, Rabinovitz has also worked as the economics reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and managing editor of Northwest Nuclear Xchange, a Seattle-based disarmament newsletter that no longer is published.