Monika Bauerlein

Monika Bauerlein is the Center for Investigative Reporting’s CEO, and prior to that role she served as Mother Jones’ chief executive officer, and co-editor (with Clara Jeffery). Under her tenure, Mother Jones grew its audience twentyfold, doubled the size of its staff, established bureaus in Washington and New York, won multiple awards, and launched a campaign to establish a multi-pronged business model centered on reader support. In 2024, Bauerlein led the merger of Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting. The resulting multiplatform newsroom produces journalism, alone and in partnership with other organizations, across print, digital, social, and video, as well as the investigative radio show Reveal (heard on 500+ public media stations), the new podcast More to the Story, and the Emmy Award-winning CIR Studios.