Julia Angwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and entrepreneur. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impact of technology on society. She was a senior reporter at ProPublica from 2014 to April 2018 and staff reporter at the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal from 2000 to 2013. Angwin is author of non-fiction books, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (2009) and Dragnet Nation (2014). She is a winner and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Early life and education 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. She grew up in Palo Alto, where she learned to code in the 5th grade. During summers, she worked at the Hewlett-Packard Demo Center in Cupertino. Angwin graduated from the University of Chicago in 1992 with a B.A. in mathematics. She was named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in 1998. She then completed her MBA at Columbia University with a concentration in accounting in 1999. Career 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. Upon graduation she moved to California where she worked briefly as a business writer for The Contra Costa Times. She then moved to Washington D.C. to work as a reporter for States News Service covering Congress for regional newspapers. In 1996 she joined the San Francisco Chronicle as a technology reporter where her coverage of the software industry included several stories of the Justice Department lawsuit against Microsoft. She also 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 U.S. Department of Labor for affirmative action violations. In 2000, “The Wall Street Journal” hired her as a staff reporter covering business and technology from their New York bureau. During her 13 years at the Journal, Angwin broke stories, led important investigations, and published numerous exposes into the growing tech sector. A November 23, 2009 article by Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler, entitled "Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages" on the "unprecedented numbers of the