Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a New York Times contributing Opinion writer and founding director of the Independent Media + Audience Project at the Shorenstein Center. She is the founder of two nonprofit newsrooms – Proof News and The Markup – that investigate the impacts of technology. She is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting.
She is 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), “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, 2009), and the upcoming book “On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear” with Ami Fields-Meyer (Harper Collins, June 2026).
Angwin was previously a fellow at the Shorenstein Center from Fall 2023 – Fall 2025.