I am an Articles Editor at Mother Jones.

If you’re interested in pitching me, my email is jrosenberg at motherjones dot com.

Here is a portfolio of some of my work.

As an editor, I organize packages like our series on bad bosses and people who quit during the pandemic. I am part of a small team that generates and edits daily news coverage. And I am one of three editors who shepherds our magazine-style cover story called the Big Feature. For the back of our print issue, I helped create (and now edit) pieces in which writers break down the social history of common phrases. I’ve written on Silicon Valley stoicism, the origin of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, the misclassification of gig workers, bad labor protections at Dollar General, the politics of inflation, and the death of Rush Limbaugh, among other things. I recently wrote a cover story on the possibilities and limitations of seeing the Big Quit as revolutionary. Here’s a blog about Nicholas Kristof, too.

Most of all, I am from Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Before, I was an Associate Editor at the Arkansas Times, an alt-weekly in Little Rock, Arkansas.

I've also reported or written for Observer.com, The Guardian, Oxford American, Harpers.org, NBC News, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, North Carolina Health News, and The Millions. I've fact-checked pieces for the Oxford American, Harper's, and Mother Jones.

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Here is a list of my work from before Mother Jones.

Arkansas Times

'Protect and serve' vs. 'patrol and control' in Little Rock -- As the Little Rock Police Department has increased traffic stops to crack down on crime, it says the stops can also be part of community policing. Others say it's akin to stop-and-frisk. (cover story, won Diamond Jouranlism award)

The post-prison license hurdle -- Arkansas is trying to make it easier for those released from ADC to get licenses and IDs. But challenges remain.

K2 in prison: widely available, difficult to detect and potentially deadly.  — The use of 'synthetic marijuana' is soaring in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Guards, inmates and even ADC emails say it is killing inmates. (cover story)

ADC can't retain guards -- More than a third of new hires in 2017 left before the year was up. The culture is the problem, former guards say.

A week at Midtown — Can a dive bar be reborn?  (cover story)

Downsizing dwindles -- A review of Alexander Payne's latest feature

Why Arkansas plans to kill eight men in 11 days — Under the guise of 'synthetic civility.' (cover story)

 

Oxford American 

Only Human — My journey to find “Spaceman,” a man half-mentioned in the song “Miracles” by Johnnie Frierson

Interview with comedian Rory Scovel

River Music (an interview with Jake Xerxes Fussell)

 

Observer.com

A Solid Night’s Sleep Is the New Luxury Good. Have Fun Affording It. (Feature)

The Millions

The Great Jester: On Simon Rich’s ‘Hits and Misses’

NBC News:

In New Bern, North Carolina, residents say Hurricane Florence made housing crisis worse

Thousands March in Boston for Counter-Protest to ‘Free Speech Rally’ 

The Guardian

Arkansas executions: 'I was watching him breathe heavily and arch his back'

Arkansas executions: death chamber evidence sought amid torture fears

Fourth and final Arkansas inmate Kenneth Williams executed

Arkansas carries out first double execution in the US for 16 years

Arkansas executions: first prisoner killed after legal challenge fails

 

More from The Arkansas Times/ANNN

DHS rule change threatens disabled care

Arkansas-linked Charlottesville marcher identified, apologizes to those misidentified

Another lawsuit filed against ADC officials, former prison chaplain convicted of sexual assault at McPherson

Michael Reed, charged with knocking down 10 Commandments monument: 'I just couldn't help myself'

Three shots fired after Tucker Max breakout

More on the drugs Arkansas will use to kill seven

No life terms for minors

Campus carry bill passes Senate committee

Bill to provide parole hearings for offenders convicted as juveniles and serving life without parole sentences advances

 

Harpers.org

Weekly Review (November 6, 2018)

Weekly Review (October 16, 2018)

Weekly Review (July 31, 2018)

Weekly Review (July 10, 2018)

Weekly Review (May 29, 2018)

Weekly Review (May 15, 2018)

Weekly Review (April 25, 2018)

Weekly Review (April 10, 2018)

Weekly Review (March 6, 2017)

Weekly Review (April 19, 2017)