Mother Jones is named Magazine of the Year in U.S. National Magazine Awards

Mother Jones magazine was named magazine of the year, the top prize in the U.S. National Magazine Awards which were presented Tuesday in New York.

"The 41-year-old bimonthly, which also won in the Reporting category for its blockbuster exposé on private prisons, beat out fellow Magazine of the year finalists The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, The California Sunday Magazine and New York magazine,"