The Markup, a tech news birth-up site, is rebooting with the return of its ousted editor in chief, Julia Angwin.
Angwin, whose imaginative and prescient was to bring an investigative and statistics-pushed method to the insurance of know-how and its affect on society, was fired returned in April. well-nigh the whole editorial staff went together with her.
Angwin and the body of workers are back. The team revealed that they have persevered working over the last three months to put together for an respectable launch at the end of the 12 months, according to a new York instances file.
The Markup also has a brand new president: Nabiha Syed, a former affiliate vice president and normal counsel at BuzzFeed. Evelyn Larrubia, up to now government editor at public radio application "marketplace," is the new managing editor.
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The Markup had raised more than $23 million, with donations from Craig Newmark, the billionaire founder of Craigslist.
In a letter despatched to Newmark in April, Angwin mentioned she become compelled out by way of Sue Gardner, The Markup's government director and a founder. Gardner has because stepped down.
Angwin has worked as a reporter and investigative journalist on the Wall road Journal andProPublica. She become a part of a crew at WSJ that received a Pulitzer Prize.
in response to the times, The Markup's enterprise will depend partly on reader donations.
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