Full Name
Julia Angwin
Title
Editor-in-Chief and Founder
Company
The Markup
Speaker Bio
Julia Angwin is Editor-in-Chief and Founder of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that produces meaningful data-centered journalism about technology and the people affected by it.
Before founding The Markup, she led investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance,” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009). She has a B.A. in mathematics from The University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia University.
She is a winner and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Before founding The Markup, she led investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance,” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009). She has a B.A. in mathematics from The University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia University.
She is a winner and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
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