Mark Follman is the national affairs editor at Mother Jones. He is a former editor of Salon and a cofounder of MediaBugs. His reporting and commentary have also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and on Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR's All Things Considered and Fresh Air. Since 2012, his in-depth investigations into mass shootings, child gun deaths, and the financial costs of gun violence have been honored with numerous journalism awards.