Angwin in talks to return to The Markup

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is looking to bring back Julia Angwin as editor in chief of tech news site the Markup weeks after her abrupt departure, reports Suzanne Vranica of The Wall Street Journal.

Vranica writes, “In a tweet Friday afternoon, Mr. Newmark said that Sue Gardner, the site’s co-founder and executive editor, and Jeff Larson, co-founder and managing editor, were ‘no longer with the Markup.’ He also said he was ‘hopeful an announcement about the future of The Markup will be made soon.’

“Ms. Gardner and Mr. Larson declined to comment. Ms. Angwin referred questions to Mr. Newmark, who couldn’t immediately be reached. Mr. Newmark has donated about $20 million to the website.

“Ms. Angwin, a former Wall Street Journal and ProPublica journalist, was forced out of the Markup—of which she one of three co-founders—last month following a clash with Ms. Gardner. She said at the time that Ms. Gardner had changed the mission of the newsroom to one based on ‘advocacy against the tech companies.’ She said Ms. Gardner wanted the Markup to be a cause rather than a publication.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.