Julia Angwin
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Bio
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica.
From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, will be published by Times Books in 2014.
In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. She is also the author of “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009).
She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
Appearances on CUNY TV
BrianLehrer.tv
- What Facebook is Telling Politicians About You
October 19, 2011
Moyers & Company
- No Escaping Dragnet Nation
March 24, 2014
The Open Mind
- Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry - Julia Angwin
June 24, 2018
