Leon Yin
The Markup investigative data reporter Leon Yin is leaving the technology site at the end of the week.
He has been The Markup since April 2019.
His reporting of Google search’s self-referential results was cited in the opening remarks of a congressional hearing on tech giants and antitrust. In 2022, he won a Gerald Loeb Award for Personal Finance and Consumer Reporting with Adrianne Jeffries for their series, “Amazon’s Advantage.”
Before joining The Markup, he was a research scientist at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics, a research affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute, and a software engineer at NASA.
Yin holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from New York University.
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