Artificial intelligence poses existential challenges and transformative opportunities for journalism and the future of the news industry. This panel brings together journalists and technologists to ex...
Julia Angwin
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a New York Times contributing Opinion writer and a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
She is the founder of Proof News, a new nonprofit journalism studio which launched in March 2024. In 2018, she founded The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impacts of technology on society. From 2014 to 2018, Julia was a senior reporter at the independent news organization ProPublica, where she led an investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2017 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2018.
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. 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 the New York Times bestseller Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance (Times Books, 2014) and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, 2009).
She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
Targeting technology: how are we covering one of the most important beats in the world?
Technology has become one of the most important news beats in the world, impacting elections, economies and societal structures. Yet much of the focus is centered on the U.S and Europe, when in fact m...
In our automated, digitised and (allegedly) smart society, technology reporting is increasingly crucial. And yet it is not easy to stand up to the power (and influence) of Big Tech on the one hand and...
The public no longer trusts a hypothesis supported only by a few anecdotes. Receipts are required - whether it is documents or datasets. Newsrooms and nonprofits are at the forefront of building innov...
Now more than ever, we need to understand the proprietary technologies that influence our daily lives. Newsrooms around the world are hiring data experts and technologists to analyze the complex algor...
Never before has it been possible to collect and distribute so much data. And yet a paradox is that amidst this flood of information, it is increasingly difficult for the public to find meaning amidst...
As a news organization that writes about the impact of ubiquitous surveillance on society, The Markup has made a pledge that it will not expose its readers to third party surveillance. This has meant ...
Targeting technology: how are we covering one of the most important beats in the world?
Technology has become one of the most important news beats in the world, impacting elections, economies and societal structures. How are global news organizations approaching their coverage?
As states and corporations increasingly load decision-making onto artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms, how can we as journalists keep them in check? How do you hold an algorithm to acc...
Whether it is their ownership structure, business model or editorial focus, more and more news organizations are moving away from the well-worn paths of the past. This panel will feature three news or...
Media capture, the control of journalism outlets by business tycoons and their government cronies, has already existed. In the digital age however it takes new forms. This panel will discuss the role ...
Around the world, most recently including liberal democracies, journalism and journalists are under attack. But that is a symptom of a much deeper trend: a move away from the basic freedoms that were ...
Witness vs. forensics: the future of data-driven investigative reporting. #ijf19talk by Julia Angwin
#ijf19talk by Julia Angwin. Moderated by Dan Gillmor. Journalism has long focused on being a witness to events that the public would not otherwise get to see. But now that the public has its own witn...
The Perugia Principles: new guidelines for journalists working with whistleblowers
This session will represent the global industry launch of The Perugia Principles – a new set of guidelines for journalists working with whistleblowers in the digital context published in English, Sp...
As platform companies have grown to mediate core aspects of our society, a central question has emerged of who should and can hold them accountable? With many governments unwilling or unable to govern...
Julia Angwin runs an award-winning team that has pioneered a new field of algorithmic accountability journalism. Working with two programmers and a researcher, her team has unveiled the hidden discrim...
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