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is a nonprofit, liberal, bimonthly magazine that specializes in investigative reporting.
Mother Jones was founded in 1976 and is based in San Francisco. In 2008, the magazine opened a with seven staff members. The bureau had a staff of 16 as of 2014, while the entire magazine had a staff of about 80.
Mother Jones is , which exists solely to support the magazine. About comes from major grants and donations, with the remainder from smaller donations, subscriptions, newsstand sales, and advertising. It has stood out from other nonprofit news outlets for its diversity of revenue sources. In 2012, nearly 39,000 people donated to the magazine. It also sells ads for both the print magazine and website.
Mother Jones’ circulation in the early 2000s, though it has dipped slightly during the Obama administration. The magazine says , about three-quarters of which are paid subscriptions.
Mother Jones was in 1993. In 2009, the magazine on the open-source platform Drupal with the intent that readers help it with data mashups and other projects. The redesign also that allows users to tag comments as “solutions” or “results” as a way to highlight civic participation. The magazine was also to join the data archiving project DocumentCloud.
In 2010, Mother Jones launched , a collaborative initiative covering climate change, which it spearheaded. The The Atlantic, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Grist, Slate, Wired, and PBS’ Need to Know. Mother Jones is also a founding member of the Media Consortium, a group of liberal publications that launched in 2006, also creating an advertising network.
The magazine reported record-breaking web traffic in February 2011, a 420 percent increase from the year before. Mother Jones attributed its growth in part to an expanded focus on explainers, which bring context to big news stories, as well as to rapid growth in social media. Its digital ad sales also rose 97 percent in the first of half of 2011 over the previous year. It in September 2012, when it posted a video of presidential candidate Mitt Romney making controversial comments about American who didn’t pay federal income tax. Its traffic continued to rise to new highs in 2014, thanks to continued work in drawing traffic from social media.
El Faro is the first web-only news organization launched in Central America, and it is based in El Salvador. It was founded in 1998, as an independent alternative to traditional media outlets, then perceived as highly partisan or corrupt. The original idea was it to be a printed newspaper, but its founders -Carlos Dada and Jorge…
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