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1979

In 1979, a team of writers put together a prize-winning package of stories on “dumping”—the unloading on Third World countries of pesticides, medicines, and other products banned in the United States as unsafe.

1983

When our friend Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, published his 1983 book, The Media Monopoly, it was subtitled A Startling Report on the 50 Corporations That Control What America Sees, Hears and Reads.

1993

Mother Jones was part of this process early on, in 1993, when it became the first general-interest magazine to publish on the Web.

1996

In 1996, the magazine launched the Mother Jones 400, an investigation of the largest donors to political campaigns.

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