Monika Bauerlein

Bauerlein was born in Germany, but has lived in several countries, including Italy, where her father, Heinz Bäuerlein, was a foreign correspondent.

Bauerlein was promoted to the position of Mother Jones CEO in May 2015, following the departure of Madeleine Buckingham; previously she was the magazine's co-editor.

[1] Together, Bauerlein and Jeffery overhauled the website of Mother Jones, putting a greater emphasis on staff-generated, daily news and original reporting.

[1] In August 2013, Bauerlein shared the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing[2] with Clara Jeffery for their work at Mother Jones.

The judges wrote: "Mother Jones under Jeffery and Bauerlein has been transformed from what was a respected—if-under-the-radar—indie publication to an internationally recognized powerhouse [...] whose writers and reporters often put more well-known and deep-pocketed news divisions to shame."