Awards and recognition
2023
“Obstacle Course” was part of a package that received a Best of CASE District VII Award for storytelling.
“Pulling Back From Polarization” received a Best of CASE District VII Award for news/feature writing.
Edited “How to Survive the AI Revolution,” which received a Best of CASE District VII Award for research, medicine, and science news writing.
Stanford Business received the CASE Gold Circle of Excellence award for design and Bronze Circle of Excellence award for illustrations.
2021
Edited a profile of the women of the Stanford MBA class of 1972, which received a Best of CASE District VII Award for storytelling.
Co-edited “A Beautiful Application: Using Economics to Make Kidney Exchanges More Efficient and Fair,” which received a Best of CASE District VII Award for research, medicine, and science writing.
2019
Edited Sinduja Rangarajan’s investigation of H-1B visa policies; a companion episode of Reveal received the Asian American Journalists Association’s award for general excellence.
2017
Mother Jones received the American Society of Magazine Editors’ award for Magazine of the Year.
Edited Shane Bauer’s “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard,” recipient of several awards including a National Magazine Award for reporting. A companion multimedia package was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding New Approaches: Current News category.
Edited Mark Follman’s “Inside the Race to Stop the Next Mass Shooter,” which received the American Psychoanalytic Association’s award for excellence in journalism.
Mother Jones received a Maggie Award for special interest/consumer magazine.
2015
“The NRA’s Murder Mystery” received SPJ NorCal’s James Madison Freedom of Information Award and the Association for Women in Communications’ Clarion Award. It was a finalist for the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Award and a finalist for a Hillman Prize.
2013
Mother Jones received the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award for “some of the best and most accessible coverage of ‘dark money’.”
2012
Mother Jones’ “Terrorists for the FBI” package received a Data Journalism Award for data-driven investigation.
2011
New York Times: Sentence of the week nomination
2010
Mother Jones received a National Magazine Award for general excellence.
2008
Mother Jones received a National Magazine Award for general excellence.
2003
“Jesse’s Heroes” received first place in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence award in feature writing.
B-Side Radio received the National Federation of Community Broadcasters’ Silver Reel for pre-produced local public affairs programming.
2001
Received the I.F. Stone Award for investigative reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.