Julia Angwin, Proof News, The Markup, & Shorenstein Center at Harvard JFK School

Why Big Tech is Really Big Media — And What That Means for our Democracy

Session Moderator: Jennifer Strong

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 Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. 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 bestselling books “On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear,” (Mariner Books, 2026) with co-author Ami Fields-Meyer, and “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance” (Times Books, 2014), as well as“Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009).

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