Mark Follman is National Affairs Editor for Mother Jones.

Follman is a graduate of Duke University. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.

Follman joined Mother Jones in September 2011. 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, Follman's in-depth investigations into mass shootings, child gun deaths, and the financial costs of gun violence have been honored with numerous journalism awards.