Shane Bauer is an American journalist, best known for his undercover reporting for Mother Jones magazine. He has won several awards including the Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting.
Life Bauer grew up in Onamia, Minnesota and he is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley in peace and conflict studies.
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, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and The New Yorker.
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)."CCA employee was undercover reporter." Winn Parish Reporter. Wednesday March 18, 2015. Retrieved on June 27, 2016.
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.
Works
Books +YearTitle2014A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran2018American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Awards YearTitle2012James Aronson Award2013Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism2013Media for a Just Society Awards2017John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting2017Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting2017Michael Kelly Award2017Izzy Award2017MOLLY National Journalism Prize2019Helen Bernstein Book Award For Excellence In Journalism
Fellowships YearTitle2016MacDowell Fellowship2017Logan Nonfiction Program Fellowship
See also List of foreign nationals detained in Iran
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