Both are based in San Francisco, and Mother Jones has offices in New York and Washington, D.C.
The organization also will continue to create video and documentary film productions.
CIR Studios will continue to produce documentary films and news reports.
Clara Jeffery, editor in chief, Mother Jones at the National Magazine Awards in March.Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for American Society of Magazine Editors
Bauerlin said in a statement, Journalism is in crisis just when democracy needs it most.
Bauerlin said that the combination will reach an audience of 10 million monthly.
Rosenthal said that the combination will increase our ability to deliver stories that would otherwise not be told.
