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Clara Jeffery

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Since taking the editorial helm at Mother Jones in late 2006, Clara and her co-editor, Monika Bauerlein, have won two National Magazine Awards for general excellence, relaunched MotherJones.com, founded an nine-person Washington bureau, given birth, and forgotten what it's like to sleep. It probably doesn't help she's on Twitter so much.

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Clara Jeffery is co-editor of Mother Jones, where, together with Monika Bauerlein, she has spearheaded an era of editorial growth and innovation, marked by the addition of an eight-person Washington bureau, an overhaul of the organization's digital strategy and a corresponding tripling of traffic, and the winning of two National Magazine Awards for general excellence. Before joining the staff of Mother Jones, she was a senior editor of Harper's magazine. Ten pieces that she personally edited have been finalists for National Magazine Awards, in the categories of essay, profile, reporting, public interest, feature, and fiction. Works she edited have also been selected to appear in various editions of Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Science Writing. Clara cut her journalistic teeth at Washington City Paper, where she wrote and edited political, investigative, and narrative features, and was a columnist. Jeffery is a graduate of Carleton College and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Born in Baltimore and raised in Arlington, Virginia, she now resides in the Mission District of San Francisco with her partner Chris Baum and their three-year-old son, Milo. Their burrito joint of choice is El Metate.

National Magazine Award: Year of the Woman (Finally)

At last, byline parity in the writing and reporting categories.

—By

| Mon Apr. 1, 2013 7:28 AM PDT

Every year, when the National Magazine Award nominees are announced, there are some gnashed teeth and bitter feelings over what was—and wasn't—nominated. (We got four [!!] nominations this year, so we're very happy, if slightly confused.*) But over the last few years, there's been outrage over one topic in particular: how few women writers are nominated, much less ultimately awarded the "Ellie," for their work. Was this purely a result of the lack of female bylines in prominent magazines (as pointed out over the years by groups like WomenTK and VIDA)? Was it made worse by magazines not putting women's work up for nominations? Was it judging bias?

Monika and I wrote about this last year, and in our opinion, it's mostly the first. But in any case, whether by chance or by collective soul searching, this year has seen dramatic improvement within the reporting and writing categories (public interest, reporting, feature writing, essays and criticism, columns and commentary, and fiction). Last year, women were only nominated for seven of the available 25 slots, and were completely shut out of four categories. This year, they've garnered 17 of the available 34 spots, and women are nominees in every category. (Note: There are many other awards given at the National Magazine Awards, including ones to which bylines are attached, like personal service writing. But these are the categories most under debate when it comes to byline parity.)

So how do things break down?

Public Interest

Public Interest: This category basically honors investigative and/or "impact" journalism.  Last year it was the lone nonfiction bright spot for women, who comprised four of the five nominees. (Sarah Stillman, also up for an award this year, ultimately won.) This year, the ladies swept the category.*

Reporting

Reporting: Last year, there were no female nominees in this category (since expanded from five to seven, to account for the fact that there is no longer a profile category). This year two of the seven are women: Texas Monthly's Pam Colloff and the Texas Observer's Melissa del Bosque.

Feature Writing

Feature Writing: This is the "high points for style" category (also expanded this year). Last year, zero women. This year, three: MoJo's Mac McClelland as well as Texas Monthly's Pam Coloff (again!) and Karen Russell in GQ.

Essays and Criticism

Essays and Criticism: Last year, zero women. This year, one: Mona Eltahawy in Foreign Policy.

Columns and Commentary

Columns and Commentary: Last year, zip. This year, three of five nominees are women: Daphne Merkin in Elle, The Nation's Katha Pollitt, and Slate's Dahlia Lithwick.

Fiction

Fiction: Last year there were three women nominated (Karen Russell for Zoetrope eventually won). This year, three women have been again nominated: Jennifer Haigh in Byliner, Alice Munro in Harper's, Sarah Frisch in The Paris Review.

 

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on May 2. May the best women—and men!—win.

*We confess to a little befuddlement as to why David Corn's 47 Percent reporting didn't get a public interest nomination, but the video itself got a nomination. But then the awards are evolving to figure out how to honor work that's not a traditional magazine piece.

Note: Thanks to Dana Liebelson for helping whip up these charts. She'll be on this list one day.

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Mother Jones Nominated for 4 National Magazine Awards

Mother Jones has been nominated in four categories: general excellence, multimedia, video (for the 47 percent video), and feature writing.

—By and

| Mon Apr. 1, 2013 7:26 AM PDT

Today, the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced the nominees for the 2013 National Magazine Awards. We are thrilled to announce that Mother Jones has been nominated in four categories: general excellence, print; multimedia; video (for the 47 percent video); and feature writing, for Mac McClelland's "I Was A Warehouse Wage Slave" (a.k.a. "Shelf Lives"). These awards, which honor work published in 2012, are considered the Academy Awards of the industry. On May 2, editors will gather in New York City to find out the winners.

The nominees were also notable for the number of women nominated for the writing and reporting categories. For the first time, women achieved parity in the number of such nominations. Hell, it's the first time they've come close. (Clara has more on that here.)

The official release from ASME is below. You can monitor chatter about the nominations on twitter by following @ASME1963 and the hashtag #ellies.

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NEW YORK, NY (April 1, 2013)—The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2013 National Magazine Awards. Known as the Ellies--for the Alexander Calder stabile "Elephant" given to each award winner--the National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 2, at the New York Marriott Marquis.

The May 2 gala will also include the presentation of the Creative Excellence Award to Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard, whose work as graphic designers has shaped the modern magazine. The Creative Excellence Award was established in 2008 by ASME to recognize writers and artists who have made unique and enduring contributions to magazines.

Sixty-two publications were nominated this year in 23 categories. Twenty-six magazines received multiple nominations, led by National Geographic with seven, followed by Bon Appétit and New York, both with six. GQ and The New Yorker both received five nominations; Esquire, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones and Texas Monthly all received four.

Magazines with multiple nominations also include The Atlantic (3), Saveur (3), TIME (3), Wired (3), Bloomberg Businessweek (2), Byliner (2), Golf Digest (2) Los Angeles (2), Martha Stewart Living (2), The New York Times Magazine (2), Outside (2), The Paris Review (2), Real Simple (2), Scientific American (2),Slate (2), Sports Illustrated (2) and W (2).

Six publications are first-time finalists: Afar for Website; Bullett for Design; Byliner for Feature Writing and Fiction; HGTV Magazine for Magazine Section; mental_floss for General Excellence, Print; and Pitchfork for General Excellence, Digital Media.

Finalists in the Magazine of the Year category, honoring excellence both in print and on digital platforms, will be announced on Monday, April 8.
Established in 1966, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by ASME in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Nearly 260 publications entered the National Magazine Awards this year, submitting 1,636 entries. The judges included 330 magazine editors, art directors and photography editors as well as journalism educators.

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2013 FINALISTS:

GENERAL EXCELLENCE, PRINT
News, Sports, and Entertainment Magazines
(Honors large-circulation weeklies, biweeklies and monthlies)
Esquire; Fortune; National Geographic; New York; Wired

Service and Fashion Magazines
(Honors women's magazines, including health, fitness and family-centric publications)
Harper's Bazaar; O, The Oprah Magazine; Real Simple; Vogue; Women's Health

Women's Health Lifestyle Magazines
(Honors food, travel and shelter magazines as well as city and regional publications)
Bon Appétit; House Beautiful; Martha Stewart Living; Saveur; Texas Monthly

Special-Interest Magazines
(Honors magazines serving targeted audiences, including enthusiast and hobbyist titles)
The Fader; mental_floss; MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History; Outside; Scientific American

Literary, Political and Professional Magazines
(Honors small-circulation general-interest magazines as well as academic and scholarly publications)
MIT Technology Review; Mother Jones; The New Republic; The Paris Review; Poetry

GENERAL EXCELLENCE, DIGITAL MEDIA
Chow; Glamour; National Geographic; Pitchfork; Slate

DESIGN
Bon Appétit; Bullett; Details; New York; TIME

PHOTOGRAPHY
Bon Appétit; Interview; National Geographic; TIME; W

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Harper's Magazine for "The Water of My Land," photographs by Samuel James; September
  • Martha Stewart Living for "A Pilgrim's Feast," photographs by Anna Williams; November
  • National Geographic for "In the Shadow of Wounded Knee," by Alexandra Fuller; photographs by Aaron Huey; August
  • New York for "What We Saw When The Lights Went Out," by John Homans; photographs by Iwan Baan, Pari Dukovic, Christopher Griffith, Casey Kelbaugh, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Joseph Michael Lopez, Gus Powell, Joseph Rodriguez and Peter Yang; November 12
  • W for "Good Kate, Bad Kate," by Will Self; photographs by Steven Klein; March

SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE

  • Backpacker for "The Survival Issue," October
  • Bloomberg Businessweek for "Election Issue," October 15-21
  • Fast Company for "The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies," March
  • Saveur for "The Mexico Issue," August/September
  • Sports Illustrated for "Olympic Preview," July 23

MAGAZINE SECTION

  • Bon Appétit for "Starters"
  • Esquire for "Man at His Best"
  • GQ for "The Punch List"
  • HGTV Magazine for "Help Wanted"
  • New York for "Strategist"

PERSONAL SERVICE

LEISURE INTERESTS

  • Bon Appétit for "The Incredible Egg," by Carla Lalli Music, April
  • ESPN The Magazine for "Fantasy Football," August 6
  • Golf Digest for "Masters Preview," April
  • Los Angeles for "The Food Lover's Guide to L.A.," edited by Lesley Bargar Suter; November
  • Wired for "How to Be a Geek Dad," June

WEBSITE
Afar; The Atlantic; Golf Digest; National Geographic; Scientific American

TABLET MAGAZINE
Bloomberg Businessweek; Bon Appétit; Esquire; Money; National Geographic

MULTIMEDIA

VIDEO

PUBLIC INTEREST

  • The Atlantic for "The Writing Revolution," by Peg Tyre; October
  • Consumer Reports for "Arsenic in Your Juice," January, and "Arsenic in Your Food," November, by Andrea Rock
  • The New Yorker for "The Throwaways," by Sarah Stillman; September 3
  • Rolling Stone for "School of Hate," by Sabrina Rubin Erdely; February 16
  • Texas Monthly for "Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives," by Mimi Swartz; August

REPORTING

  • Chicago for "Lawbreakers, Lawmakers," by David Bernstein and Noah Isackson; January
  • GQ for "18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque and 1 Man Dead in Ohio," by Chris Heath; March
  • Harper's Magazine for "All Politics Is Local: Election Night in Peru's Largest Prison," by Daniel Alarcón; February
  • The New York Times Magazine for "Did You Think About the Six People You Executed?" by Robert F. Worth; May 13
  • The New Yorker for "The Implosion," February 27, and "The War Within," August 27, by Jon Lee Anderson
  • Texas Monthly for "Hannah and Andrew," by Pamela Colloff; January
  • The Texas Observer for "Valley of Death," by Melissa del Bosque; March

FEATURE WRITING (INCORPORATING PROFILE WRITING)

  • Byliner for "The Living and the Dead," by Brian Mockenhaupt; October
  • GQ for "The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador," by Karen Russell; October
  • GQ for "Burning Man," by Jay Kirk; February
  • Mother Jones for "Shelf Lives," by Mac McClelland; March/April
  • The New Yorker for "Atonement," by Dexter Filkins; October 29 & November 5
  • Texas Monthly for "The Innocent Man: Part I," November, and "The Innocent Man: Part II," December, by Pamela Colloff
  • Wired for "Inside the Mansion—and the Mind—of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Internet," by Charles Graeber; November

ESSAYS AND CRITICISM

  • The Atlantic for "Fear of a Black President," by Ta-Nehisi Coates; September
  • Foreign Policy for "Why Do They Hate Us?" by Mona Eltahawy; May/June
  • New York for "A Life Worth Ending," by Michael Wolff; May 28
  • The New Yorker for "Over the Wall," by Roger Angell; November 19
  • Orion for "State of the Species," by Charles C. Mann; November/December

COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY

  • Elle for three columns by Daphne Merkin: "Portrait of a Lady," March; "Social Animal," May; and "We're All Helmut Newton Now," October
  • The Nation for three columns by Katha Pollitt: "Protect Pregnant Women: Free Bei Bei Shuai," March 26; "Ann Romney, Working Woman?" May 7; and "Blasphemy Is Good for You," October 15
  • New York for three columns by Frank Rich: "Who in God's Name Is Mitt Romney?" February 6; "Mayberry R.I.P.," July 30; and "Nora's Secret," August 27-September 3
  • The New York Times Magazine for three columns by Adam Davidson: "It Ain't Just Pickles," February 19; "The $200,000-Nanny Club," March 25; and "Caymans, Here We Come," July 29
  • Slate for three columns by Dahlia Lithwick: "It's Not About the Law, Stupid," March 22; "The Supreme Court's Dark Vision of Freedom," March 27; and "Where Is the Liberal Outrage?" July 6

FICTION

  • Byliner for "The Boy Vanishes," by Jennifer Haigh; July
  • Harper's Magazine for "Batman and Robin Have an Altercation," by Stephen King; September
  • Harper's Magazine for "Train," by Alice Munro; April
  • McSweeney's Quarterly for "River Camp," by Thomas McGuane; September
  • The Paris Review for "Housebreaking," by Sarah Frisch; December

Source of 47 Percent Video to Go Public

—By and

| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 6:40 PM PDT

On September 17, Mother Jones' David Corn broke a story that became a key factor in the presidential campaign, revealing video of GOP candidate Mitt Romney speaking candidly to donors at a $50,000-a-plate campaign fundraiser. In the video, Romney said that 47 percent of Americans

"…will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them…These are people who pay no income tax."

The story went global instantly, appearing at the top of news sites and TV broadcasts around the world, with millions of people ultimately watching the video. But amid much speculation about the source of the recording, Corn did not reveal the name of the the person who shot the video, honoring a pledge to protect his identity. Now the source himself has decided to go public: He will tell his story Wednesday night on MSNBC's The Ed Show. (The Huffington Post has also published a couple of pieces about him, without disclosing his name.) We'll have more information then, but for now, we will continue to honor our commitment not to divulge details. You can watch the The Ed Show preview here.

Salute to James Ridgeway

A veteran MoJo reporter launches a new project

—By and

| Tue Mar. 5, 2013 6:31 AM PST
James Ridgeway

Jim Ridgeway—who leaves MoJo's staff roster this week to become a contributing reporter—is, though he'd never put it this way, one of the legends of modern muckraking. Back in 1965 he helped establish the nascent field of consumer reporting when he revealed that GM had run a dark-ops campaign against a young Ralph Nader, whose book Unsafe at Any Speed detailed how automakers had knowingly sacrificed safety for sales. He went on to break more stories than we can count, digging into everything from energy politics to national security to the sex industry. MoJo co-founder Adam Hochschild remembers becoming a Ridgeway reader in 1968, when Jim and the late Andrew Kopkind started a newsletter called first Mayday and later Hard Times.

I still remember the yellow paper it came on, how eagerly I waited for each issue to arrive, and the pleasure of instantly knowing we shared a view of the world if I found that a new acquaintance was also a reader. It is sobering, in a way, to see how many of the problems Jim wrote about half a century ago are still with us. But it’s inspiring to see someone keep the faith all these years, especially someone who could have very easily had a successful and doubtless much more lucrative career writing unthreatening stories for the mainstream media. That, in fact, is where more than of few of the dissenters of the 1960s ended up.

Also among Ridgeway's admirers was Rupert Murdoch, who bought the Village Voice (where Ridgeway had become a staff writer) as part of his New York Magazine Co. acquisition in 1977.

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Mother Jones' David Corn Wins George Polk Award

—By and

| Sun Feb. 17, 2013 10:02 PM PST

How is MoJo Washington Bureau Chief David Corn like Edward R. Murrow, Carl Bernstein, David Halberstam, Gay Talese, Fred Friendly, I.F. Stone, and Walter Cronkite? So many ways really, but the most notable today is that they have all won a George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious honors in journalism. Corn is the winner in the political reporting category for the 47 percent story—his revelation of a video documenting Mitt Romney's remarks at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans were "dependent upon the government" and would never "take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

The Polk award, established in 1949 to honor a CBS correspondent murdered while covering the Greek Civil War, is given each year by Long Island University; this year's announcement commends Corn for the "years of high-impact journalism that helped lead him to the source of the recording," and for the "persistent digging and careful negotiation" that made the story possible. Other winners include the staff of Bloomberg News and the New York Times' David Barboza for uncovering corruption among China's elite; a team of McClatchy correspondents (including former MoJo contributor David Enders) covering the war in Syria; Sarah Stillman for her New Yorker piece on teen informants; Ryan Gabrielson of California Watch for a story on abuses in state clinics for the disabled; and the Frontline team behind the documentary "Money, Power, and Wall Street." For David and all of us at Mother Jones, it's a capstone for an amazing year and thrilling recognition for a project that has been widely credited with changing the course of the campaign.

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Mother Jones Nominated for 4 National Magazine Awards

Mother Jones has been nominated in four categories: general excellence, multimedia, video (for the 47 percent video), and feature writing.

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