By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 9/18/12 3:28pm

Traffic Jams

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Mother Jones Metrics ‘Melted’ After Romney Meltdown

So, just how much traffic did Mother Jones receive to their website after publishing their blockbuster video of Mitt Romney?

“The traffic melted the needle of our live meter,” said Monika Bauerlein, an editor at the liberal magazine, when we reached her this afternoon. “Our metric software just couldn’t keep up.”

“But you know, online publishing metrics are kind of voodoo anyway,” she said.

Ms. Bauerlein noted that the video has gotten 2.4 million views – that they know of. Read More

By Steve Huff 9/17/12 10:51pm

Campaign 2012

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Who Is Mother Jones Tipster ‘Anne Onymous?’ [Videos]

Videos recorded in the last month or so apparently caught Mitt Romney speaking perhaps a bit too frankly to a captive group of donors. The covertly-recorded videos, spotlighted by the liberal publication Mother Jones, reveal that the Republican nominee has a more controversial view of a significant percentage of the American electorate than has perhaps been heard from him before.

Mother Jones‘s David Corn didn’t shy away from presenting the videos with a dash of cloak-and-dagger theatrics: Read More

By Drew Grant 12/01/11 2:12pm

Occupy Wall Street

Protesters in the free speech zone during Obama's midtown fundraiser (via Mother Jones)

NYPD Still Barring Journalists From Covering Protests During Obama Fundraiser in Midtown

Last night, demonstrators who arrived in midtown to protest a Barack Obama fundraiser found themselves corralled into a “free speech zone” on 53rd Street and 7th Avenue. Reporters–like Josh Harkinson from Mother Jones and Meg Robertson from MSNBC –were not allowed near the penned-in demonstrators, despite Commissioner Ray Kelly‘s recent orders that the NYPD was to play nice with journalists covering OWS. This directive came after the events of the November 14th raid of Zuccotti and the Day of Protest on the 17th left 26 reporters arrested. Read More

By Gillian Reagan 9/24/09 12:14pm

Master Suite's Study

The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, WNYC, More Join Data Archive Experiment DocumentCloud

Twenty newspapers, magazines and nonprofit organizations have become new partners with DocumentCloud, a data archiving project created by journalists and developers at ProPublica and The New York Times. The Atlantic, New Yorker, Mother Jones, MSNBC, WNYC and The Washington Post are among the publications that will submit documents, files and other data into the Read More

By Zachary Roth 10/03/07 12:14am

Mother Jones Lures David Corn From The Nation

“I think my bureau will be almost as big as the Time magazine bureau,” David Corn was telling The Observer on Monday afternoon, a kid-in-a-candy-store excitement in his voice. That morning, Mr. Corn—whose name for years has been synonymous with the Washington coverage of the country’s most prominent magazine of the left, The Nation—had been Read More