Bauer has numerous awards for his reporting including a National Magazine Award for Best Reporting, a Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism, a Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism and an Izzy Stone Award.īauer will speak with students, faculty and staff via Zoom in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications course Social Justice, Human Rights and the Media. His work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle among many others. Bauer spent his early career reporting on the Middle East including Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Israel/Palestine. In 2016, he went undercover again to investigate America’s resurgent right-wing paramilitary movement. In 2015, Bauer took a job as a prison guard in Louisiana to investigate corporate-run prison, the subject of the award-winning piece, “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard.” He delves deeper into this experience in “American Prison.: Together they co-authored a memoir, 'A Sliver of Light,' about the experience. From 2009 to 2011, Bauer was held hostage in Iran with his girlfriend journalist Sarah Shourd and their friend Josh Fattal, author and Ph.D. Shane Bauer, author of our February pick for the. This culture is expressed through Civil War reenactments, a Sons of Confederate Veterans float. The CoJMC book club engages faculty and staff in the college reading and discussing important works on matters of diversity, equity and inclusion.īauer is a former reporter at Mother Jones magazine. 'American Prison' author Shane Bauer answers your questions. Christmas in Natchitoches, LAthe town Bauer resides in during his time at Winnboasts a parade that draws people from all over the state, and it reflects a Confederate history and culture that residents still take pride in. The CoJMC Book Club is also reading the book. The conversation is the result of a request from students enrolled in the college's Social Justice, Human Rights and the Media course, which is reading the book.

Journalist and author Shane Bauer will discuss his book, “American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment,” in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications on April 13 at 2:30 p.m.

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