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. She worked as a senior reporter at ProPublica from 2014 to April 2018, during which time she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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).