Julia Angwin

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Julia Angwin is an American investigative journalist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the non-profit non- governmental organization The Markup with a focus on data journalism . She was a senior reporter at ProPublica until April 2018 . and previously, from 2000 to 2013, a reporter in the New York office of the Wall Street Journal .

life and work

Angwin received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business .

From 2000 to 2013, she worked for the Wall Street Journal's New York office . During this time she led a team of investigative journalists whose work was nominated as a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in the Explanatory Reporting category. In 2010 she and the team won the Gerald Loeb Award 2010. There she worked on the series "What They Know", in which it was revealed how privacy is being undermined while most people are fully aware of it.

After 2013, she moved to ProPublica as Senior Reporter and stayed there until April 2018.

The work of the Angwin-led team studying the impact of algorithms on people's lives has been dubbed "the most terrifying watchdog of the big tech companies." For example, Angwin was the main author of an article that showed that machine learning discriminates on the basis of skin color when assessing which people are likely to become criminals. This investigation uncovered advertisements that violated anti-discrimination guidelines on platforms such as Facebook, for example by allowing ads to only be shown to people of certain skin colors. The investigations sparked a discussion to what extent such platforms are responsible for the content published on them.

In April 2018, she left the editorial team and founded the organization The Markup with her colleague Jeff Larson . They received support from Sue Gardner , Craig Newmark , the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and several ProPublica employees.

Books

In addition to her articles and article series in various newspapers and magazines, she wrote non-fiction books.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Angwin (profile). In: ProPublica. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Julia Angwin: About. 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  3. ^ Online privacy: Watching the watchers. In: The Economist. March 1, 2014, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ Julia Angwin - ProPublica. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Katharine Schwab: How ProPublica Became Big Tech's Scariest Watchdog. In: FastCompany. February 16, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  6. ^ Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, Surya Mattu: Machine Bias. In: ProPublica. May 23, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  7. ^ Julia Angwin, Alexander Hefner: Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry. In: The Open Mind. June 23, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dirk Peitz: "We have to make the tech companies liable". In: The time . September 29, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Former ProPublica journalists are launching a newsroom to cover the impact of technology on society . In: Nieman Lab . ( niemanlab.org [accessed October 18, 2018]).
  10. ^ Nellie Bowles: News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder. In: The New York Times. September 23, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .
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SURNAME Angwin, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century