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Julia Meredith Angwin
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
jma60@columbia.edu
Biography:
Julia Angwin is a technology editor and columnist in the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Web site in America. Ms. Angwin began her journalism career in Washington, D.C., as a reporter for the State's News Service in 1993 and moved to the Ottaway News Service in 1995. She was a reporter covering technology for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1996 to 1998. She joined the Journal in January 2000. In 2003, Ms. Angwin was part of a team of reporters at the Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. In 1998, the Society of Professional Journalists selected Ms. Angwin as Young Journalist of the Year. Born in Champaign, Ill., Ms. Angwin earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. She was an intern for the Washington Post. From 1998-1999, she was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University.