Monika Bauerlein (born 1965 in Germany) is the co-Editor of Mother Jones magazine. [1] (Clara Jeffery is the other co-editor.) Bauerlein was promoted to the position in August 2006, following the departure of Russ Rymer; previously she was the magazine's Investigative Editor. Bauerlein first came to Mother Jones magazine in 2000, and she has focused on developing political and investigative reportage and has spearheaded the magazine's new investigative team and Washington bureau.
Together, Bauerlein and Jeffery have overhauled Mother Jones magazine's website, putting a much greater emphasis on staff-generated, daily news and original reporting.
Bauerlein was born in Germany, but has lived in a variety of countries, including Italy, as her father worked as a foreign correspondent. She came to American on a Fulbright scholarship.
As a freelancer in New York and Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, she covered the negotiations to end the first Gulf War and the 1988 presidential campaign; during graduate school at the University of Minnesota, she filed stories for the Associated Press and a range of newspapers, magazines, and public radio programs, with an emphasis on politics and environmental coverage.
Between 1989 and 2000, Bauerlein was a writer, managing editor, and interim editor in chief at City Pages, the Village Voice sister paper in Minneapolis/St. Paul. There, she wrote in-depth features that won a range of journalism awards and were reprinted in anthologies and other publications.
Bauerlein has also written for More magazine, Sierra magazine [2], the Utne Reader [3], the Huffington Post, and Germany's Die Zeit.