Loading AI tools
Shane Bauer is an American journalist, best known for his undercover reporting for Mother Jones magazine.[1] He has won several awards including the Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting.
Shane Bauer | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Notable awards | Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting (2017) Michael Kelly Award (2017) MOLLY National Journalism Prize (2017) |
Bauer grew up in Onamia, Minnesota[2] and he is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.[3]
In July 2009, Bauer and two companions (Joshua Fattal and Sarah Shourd) were arrested by Iranian border guards after straying into Iran while allegedly hiking in northern Iraq near the Iranian border. The three Americans were held in prison in Iran on espionage charges for more than two years before their release in September 2011. They subsequently co-authored a memoir of their experience (A Sliver of Light), as well as the cover story ("Kidnapped by Iran") for the March–April 2014 issue of Mother Jones magazine.
Bauer has worked as a foreign correspondent, reporting from Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. His work has appeared in The Nation,[4] Salon.com,[5] the Los Angeles Times,[6] the Christian Science Monitor,[7][8] and The New Yorker.[9]
In 2015 he worked as an undercover journalist for Mother Jones while employed for six months as a prison guard at the Winn Correctional Center, a private prison in Winn Parish, Louisiana managed by the Corrections Corporation of America (now known as CoreCivic).[10]
In 2016, he took on another undercover news assignment for Mother Jones, infiltrating Three Percent United Patriots, a right-wing border militia in southern Arizona.[11][12]
Books
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2012 | James Aronson Award[17] |
| 2013 | Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism[18] |
| 2013 | Media for a Just Society Awards[19] |
| 2017 | John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting[20] |
| 2017 | Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting[21] |
| 2017 | Michael Kelly Award[22] |
| 2017 | Izzy Award[23] |
| 2017 | MOLLY National Journalism Prize |
| 2019 | Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism[24] |
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
