Shane Bauer

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
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Awards	Michael Kelly Award (2017) Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant (2014)

Life

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

Books

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

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

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

See also

• List of foreign nationals detained in Iran

References

1. "Shane Bauer". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
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. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
4. "Shane Bauer". The Nation. 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
5. "The sex that helped us survive: Love and defiance in an Iranian prison". Salon. 2014-03-19. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
6. "Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
7. "U.S. Embassy hit in Yemen, raising militancy concerns". Christian Science Monitor. 2008-09-18. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
8. "Shane Bauer | The Michael Kelly Award". www.kellyaward.com. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
9. "Shane Bauer". The New Yorker. 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
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 2018-08-28.
12. "What A Reporter Learned When He Infiltrated An Arizona Militia Group". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
13. "In 2009, 3 Americans Went For A Hike, And Ended Up In A Tehran Prison". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
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 2018-04-09.
16. "Excerpt: "A Sliver of Light"". Retrieved 2018-04-09.
17. "Grants and Fellowships". Global Investigative Journalism Network. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
18. "2013 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism". Hillman Foundation. 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
19. "The Winners of the 20th Annual Media for a Just Society Awards | Evident Change". www.evidentchange.org. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
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. 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
21. "Mother Jones wins Shorenstein Center's 2017 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting". Harvard Gazette. 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
22. "2018 Michael Kelly Award // Enter Today". The Atlantic. 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
23. "The Annual Izzy Award". Ithaca College. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
24. "Shane Bauer Wins 2019 Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
25. "Shane Bauer - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
26. Gordon, Sarah. "Shane Bauer - Logan Nonfiction Program". logannonfiction.org/. Retrieved 2020-12-10.

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shane Bauer.

• "Shane Bauer Talks About His Four Months Working in a Private Prison". Mother Jones.