Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin
Angwin in 2020
Born
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (BA)
Columbia University (MBA Graduate School of Business)
Occupation(s)Investigative journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Websitewww.juliaangwin.com

Julia Angwin is an American investigative journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She co-founded and was editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impact of technology on society. She was a staff reporter at the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal from 2000 to 2013, during which time she was on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.[1] She worked as a senior reporter at ProPublica from 2014 to April 2018, during which time she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.[2][3]

Angwin is the author of two non-fiction books, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (2009) and Dragnet Nation (2014).[4][5]

  1. ^ "Julia Angwin in Talks to Return to Tech News Site She Helped Found". The Wall Street Journal. May 24, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  2. ^ "Julia Angwin". Profiles. ProPublica. nd. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  3. ^ "The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Explanatory Reporting". Pulitzer.org. 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  4. ^ Angwin, Julia (February 25, 2014). Dragnet Nation: A quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance. Times Books. pp. 304. ISBN 978-0805098075.
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