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Julia Angwin (Journalist) is an award-winning investigative journalist and senior reporter at ProPublica, and the co-founder of The Markup, along with data journalist Jeff Larson. Angwin is author of non-fiction books, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America and Dragnet Nation.

The Markup
Angwin and Jeff Larson are co-founders of The Markup. Sue Gardner is Executive Director. The news site has received funding from Craigslist's Craig Newmark, who donated $20 million.

ProPublica
Angwin is a senior reporter and investigative journalist at ProPublica, that was described as The New York Times as "big tech’s scariest watchdog." In 2016, Angwin was lead author of an article revealing machine bias against black people in criminal risk assessment that used machine learning systems.

In June 2016, Julia Angwin of ProPublica wrote about Google's updated privacy policy, which deleted a clause that had stated Google would not combine DoubleClick web browsing cookie information with personally identifiable information from its other services. This change has allowed Google to merge users’ personally identifiable information from different Google services to create one unified ad profile for each user. After publication of the article, Google reached out to ProPublica to say that the merge would not include Gmail keywords in ad targeting.

Dragnet Nation
In a 2014 interview with Kirkus Reviews's Neha Sharma, Angwin said that had become aware of data scraping while researching Stealing MySpace. To protect her own digital content, she began using Tails. The Economist, Kirkus Reviews, and the Los Angeles Times gave favorable Dragnet Nation reviews.

Wall Street Journal
In their review of Dragnet Nation, The Economist, wrote that Angwin, beginning in 2010, had overseen Wall Street Journal'''s "pioneering series" entitled "What They Know" which exposed how privacy was being eroded with most people completely unaware that it was happening. While at the Wall Street Journal, in 2010, Angwin wrote about how Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt disagreed on the development of Google Chrome with Schmidt opposing the idea because of potential "browser wars".

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
In 2003 Angwin was one of the The Wall Street Journal's staff reporters whose stories on the history and impact of corporate scandals in the United States, were acknowledged with a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.