Jeffrey Bruce Klein

For other people named Jeffrey Klein, see Jeffrey Klein (disambiguation).

Jeffrey Bruce Klein (born January 15, 1948) is an investigative journalist who co-founded Mother Jones in 1976.[1]

For its first issue he found a piece that won a National Magazine Award.[2] He forced the resignation of Ronald Reagan’s chief foreign policy advisor, Richard V. Allen, at the 1980 Republican National Convention.[3] At the San Jose Mercury News in 1983–92, he investigated The Pentagon’s secret programs to dominate space. Susan Faludi began Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women[4] while working for Klein there. Returning in the 1990s to be Mother Jones’ editor-in-chief, Klein directed exposés of Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, the top 400 political contributors in the U.S. and Donald Sipple, the Republicans' star image-maker. The investigative series on Speaker Gingrich led to his unprecedented public reprimand by the United States House of Representatives and a $300,000 fine.[5] Klein made Mother Jones the first general-interest magazine to place its content on the Internet.[6] In 2005, he co-produced for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a series on China's rising economy that won a Gerald Loeb Award.[7]

  1. ^ Carmody, Deirdre (June 21, 1993). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Mother Jones Tries to Reinvent Itself". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  2. ^ "National Magazine Awards Database". Magazine.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  3. ^ "Campaign '80 / Reagan and Allen | Vanderbilt Television News Archive". tvnews.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  4. ^ Faludi, Susan (July 19, 1991). Backlash: the undeclared war against American women. Crown. ISBN 9780517576984. Retrieved July 19, 2017 – via Internet Archive. Backlash jeffrey Klein.
  5. ^ "Countdown to Indictment", Mother Jones, November 1, 1999
  6. ^ Hochschild, Adam. "The First 25 Years". Mother Jones. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  7. ^ Lowe, Mary Ann (June 27, 2006). "2006 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management". UCLA. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.