Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, formerly of the independent news organization ProPublica and the Wall Street Journal. She has twice led investigative teams that were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. 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. Her book Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of...See more

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, formerly of the independent news organization ProPublica and the Wall Street Journal. She has twice led investigative teams that were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. 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. Her book Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance was published by Times Books in 2014. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009). See less