When was Julia Angwin born and where did she grow up?
Julia Angwin was born in Champaign, Illinois. She grew up in Palo Alto after her parents moved to Silicon Valley in 1974.
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What education did Julia Angwin receive before starting her journalism career?
Julia Angwin graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in mathematics in 1992. She later became a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in 1998 and completed an MBA at Columbia University with a concentration in accounting in 1999.
Which major investigative series did Julia Angwin lead at The Wall Street Journal?
From 2010 to 2013, Julia Angwin led an investigative team that published the What They Know series for The Wall Street Journal. This project exposed how privacy was being eroded while most people remained completely unaware of the data collection happening around them.
Who founded The Markup organization and when did it begin publishing?
In April 2018, Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson left ProPublica to found The Markup as a nonpartisan nonprofit newsroom. The publication officially began on the 25th of February 2020 with a staff of 17 reporters, editors and engineers.
What books has Julia Angwin written about technology and privacy?
Julia Angwin is the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America and Dragnet Nation. Her work covers topics ranging from Rupert Murdochs purchase of MySpace in 2005 to internet snooping and data scraping.