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Mother Jones

Mother Jones is an American magazine based in San Francisco, California. It is published by the Foundation for National Progress.[1] The magazine is named after Mary Harris Jones, a labour union activist and socialist.[2]

History

In early 1974, several journalists including Adam Hochschild gathered in the home of Paul Jacobs to begin planning what would become Mother Jones.[3]

In 1975, Bill Dodd and Richard Parker met and co-founded Mother Jones alongside several colleagues.[4][5] The first issue of the magazine was published in 1976.[6]

In December 2023, Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting announced that the two entities would merge.[7]

Organization

Mother Jones has been a project partner of The Marshall Project.[8]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Bill Dodd Co-founder Dodd Smith Dann Layher, Parker-Dodd, Craver, Mathews, Smith & Company
Adam Hochschild Co-founder -
Richard Parker Co-founder -
David Corn Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief -

Funding

Donors to Mother Jones include:[9]

  • Androcles Foundation
  • Around Foundation
  • Baskin Family Foundation
  • Broad Reach Fund
  • California Wellness Foundation
  • Chicago Community Foundation
  • Craig Newmark Philanthropies
  • Eisner Foundation
  • Emerson Collective
  • Foundation for the Carolinas
  • Holdfast Collective
  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • Kadima Foundation
  • Libra Foundation
  • Marisla Foundation
  • McKnight Foundation
  • McNabb Foundation
  • Patagonia
  • Propel Capital

Further donations are reflected on the page for the Foundation for National Progress.

Publications

Further reading

  1. Foundation for National Progress. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved March 22, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230322035132/https://www.macfound.org/grantee/foundation-for-national-progress-12627/ ↩︎

  2. “Mother” Mary Harris Jones. (2011, December 31). Women in History; Lakewood Public Library. https://web.archive.org/web/20110812031336/http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/jone-mar.htm ↩︎

  3. Hochschild, A. (2001, May). The First 25 Years. Mother Jones. http://archive.today/2024.01.03-000049/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/05/first-25-years/ ↩︎

  4. Massari, P. (2002, June 6). Mother Jones founder finishes his “to-do” list. Harvard Gazette. https://web.archive.org/web/20240102233946/https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/06/mother-jones-founder-finishes-his-to-do-list/ ↩︎

  5. Parker, R. (2017, July 31). The battles of Bill Dodd. Mother Jones. https://web.archive.org/web/20240102234337/https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/07/the-battles-of-bill-dodd/ ↩︎

  6. Foster, D. (1992, December 1). Editor’s Note. Mother Jones Magazine, 17(6), 2. Google Books. https://books.google.ca/books?id=O-cDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=1976&f=false ↩︎

  7. Falk, T. (2023, December 18). Center for Investigative Reporting will dissolve in merger with “Mother Jones.” Current. https://web.archive.org/web/20231219185951/https://current.org/2023/12/center-for-investigative-reporting-will-dissolve-in-merger-with-mother-jones/ ↩︎

  8. 2016-2017 Annual Report. The Marshall Fund. Retrieved January 31, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230131055327/https://s3.amazonaws.com/tmp-uploads-2/reports/2016-2017-Annual-Report.pdf ↩︎

  9. Thank You to Our Supporters. Mother Jones. Retrieved December 20, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231220185228/https://www.motherjones.com/support/donors/ ↩︎