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Shane Bauer
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Notable awardsGoldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting (2017)
Michael Kelly Award (2017)
MOLLY National Journalism Prize (2017)

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.

Life

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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]

Works

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Books

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Year Title
2014 A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran[13][14][15][16]
2018 American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Awards

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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]

Fellowships

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Year Title
2016 MacDowell Fellowship[25]
2017 Logan Nonfiction Program Fellowship[26]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Shane Bauer". Mother Jones. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "Friends and family tried to keep faith that Shane Bauer's nightmare in Iran will soon end". September 30, 2009.
  3. ^ "Shane Bauer Puts the Teeth Back Into Undercover Reporting". Cal Alumni Association. March 28, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  4. ^ "Shane Bauer". The Nation. April 2, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  5. ^ "The sex that helped us survive: Love and defiance in an Iranian prison". Salon. March 19, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  6. ^ "Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  7. ^ "U.S. Embassy hit in Yemen, raising militancy concerns". Christian Science Monitor. September 18, 2008. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  8. ^ "Shane Bauer | The Michael Kelly Award". www.kellyaward.com. April 10, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  9. ^ "Shane Bauer". The New Yorker. November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  10. ^ "CCA employee was undercover reporter." Winn Parish Reporter. Wednesday March 18, 2015. Retrieved on June 27, 2016.
  11. ^ "I went undercover with a militia on the US-Mexico border. Here's what I saw". Mother Jones. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  12. ^ "What A Reporter Learned When He Infiltrated An Arizona Militia Group". NPR.org. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  13. ^ "In 2009, 3 Americans Went For A Hike, And Ended Up In A Tehran Prison". NPR.org. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  14. ^ A SLIVER OF LIGHT by Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd | Kirkus Reviews.
  15. ^ "'A Sliver of Light,' by Bauer, Fattal and Shourd". SFGate. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  16. ^ "Excerpt: "A Sliver of Light"". Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  17. ^ "Grants and Fellowships". Global Investigative Journalism Network. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  18. ^ "2013 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism". Hillman Foundation. April 22, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  19. ^ "The Winners of the 20th Annual Media for a Just Society Awards | Evident Change". www.evidentchange.org. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  20. ^ "Mother Jones and ProPublica Win 2017 John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Awards". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. January 18, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  21. ^ "Mother Jones wins Shorenstein Center's 2017 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting". Harvard Gazette. March 3, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  22. ^ "2018 Michael Kelly Award // Enter Today". The Atlantic. January 9, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  23. ^ "The Annual Izzy Award". Ithaca College. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  24. ^ "Shane Bauer Wins 2019 Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism". The New York Public Library. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  25. ^ "Shane Bauer - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  26. ^ Gordon, Sarah. "Shane Bauer - Logan Nonfiction Program". logannonfiction.org/. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
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