18 Facts About Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin is an American investigative journalist, author, and entrepreneur.

Julia Angwin co-founded and was editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impact of technology on society.

Julia Angwin 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.

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

Julia Angwin was born in Champaign, Illinois, to university professor parents who moved to Silicon Valley in 1974 to work in the emerging personal computer industry.

Julia Angwin grew up in Palo Alto, where she learned to code in the 5th grade.

Julia Angwin was named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in 1998.

Julia Angwin then completed her MBA at Columbia University with a concentration in accounting in 1999.

Julia Angwin got her start in journalism as an undergrad at The University of Chicago where she served as editor-in-chief of the college newspaper, The Chicago Maroon, from 1991 to 1992.

Julia Angwin then moved to Washington DC, to work as a reporter for States News Service covering Congress for regional newspapers.

Julia Angwin led an investigation that revealed how few Blacks and Latinos were employed in Silicon Valley companies and that many leading tech firms had been cited by the US Department of Labor for affirmative action violations.

In 2014, Julia Angwin left The Wall Street Journal to join the investigative, nonprofit newsroom ProPublica as a senior reporter and investigative journalist.

In 2016, Julia Angwin was lead author of an article revealing machine bias against Black people in criminal risk assessment that used machine learning systems.

In 2022, Julia Angwin was replaced by Sisi Wei as Editor-in-Chief.

Julia Angwin is the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America and Dragnet Nation.

Julia Angwin said that as "watch dogs for democracy", journalists need to protect their sources.

In 2003 Julia Angwin was one of The Wall Street Journals 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.

Julia Angwin's daughter started a cryptography business as a middle school student called Diceware Passwords, focused on selling secure handwritten passwords.