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About Jeffrey Bruce Klein
- Jeffrey Bruce Klein (born January 15, 1948) is an investigative journalist who co-founded Mother Jones in 1976.For its first issue he found a piece that won a National Magazine Award.
- He forced the resignation of Ronald Reagan’s chief foreign policy advisor, Richard V.
- Allen, at the 1980 Republican National Convention.
- At the San Jose Mercury News in 1983–92, he investigated The Pentagon’s secret programs to dominate space.
- Susan Faludi began Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women while working for Klein there.
- Returning in the 1990s to be Mother Jones’ editor-in-chief, Klein directed exposés of Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, the top 400 political contributors in the U.S.
- and Donald Sipple, the Republicans' star image-maker.
- The investigative series on Speaker Gingrich led to his unprecedented public reprimand by the United States House of Representatives and a $300,000 fine.
- Klein made Mother Jones the first general-interest magazine to place its content on the Internet.
- In 2005, he co-produced for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a series on China's rising economy that won a Gerald Loeb Award.
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