In just over four months, Mother Jones' social video content has already surpassed Mother Jones' total video views for all of 2025 — 66.9 million views so far, compared to 66.7 million for all of 2025. That represents five times Mother Jones' number of views in the same period last year. Mother Jones has added 213,000 new followers in 2026 alone, a new follower every single minute.
These numbers represent real people — often younger, more diverse audiences who haven't traditionally engaged with legacy journalism — finding reliable, trustworthy information on Mother Jones' feeds.
Three days of coverage across 18 posts on six platforms generated 4.3 million video views and 6.1 million impressions, including 522,000 views on YouTube.
990,000 video views across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.
780,000 video views across platforms, with 660,000 on YouTube alone.
1.16 million video views across five platforms, including 803,000 on Instagram.
Nearly 500,000 video views, 4.0 million impressions, and 105,000 engagements — anchored by a single post on X that reached 3.4 million impressions. This one really demonstrates that deep investigative reporting, not just breaking news, can drive massive social engagement.
Since April, the team has been showered with nominations and wins across some of the most prestigious awards in journalism. Here's a roundup:
"Gutted," the documentary Mother Jones produced with Fault Lines based on Hannah Levintova's investigation of a private equity firm that's buying up and gutting hospitals, was nominated for Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage at the 47th News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You, Mother Jones' investigation in partnership with Lighthouse Reports, is a finalist in the Investigative Category at the European Press Prize 2026.
Mother Jones and Reveal each took home a People's Voice win:
Nadia Hamdan was named a finalist for the 2026 Livingston Awards — honoring the best reporting by young journalists — for the Reveal episode "The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn't Hear".
Doug Chayka's illustration for Mother Jones' America 250 coverage was selected for inclusion in the prestigious American Illustration book.
"Immigrants on the Line" received two nominations at the 2026 James Beard Media Awards — one for the written feature (in partnership with FERN) and one for the companion Reveal podcast episode.
Reveal's Goon Squad investigation, with Mississippi Today and the New York Times, exposing years of brutality by the Rankin County sheriff's department, won IRE's "Best Crime Reporting" award.
CIR won in every category Mother Jones entered in this international prize honoring excellence in video and television across all screens, taking home six trophies:
Finally, "More to the Story" was nominated in the Podcast: Commentary and Discussion category for "Being Black in America Almost Killed Me, Part 1", a powerful conversation between Al and Pulitzer-winning journalist Trymaine Lee.