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Four journalists resign from The Markup after editor forced out

At least four journalists at tech news startup The Markup have resigned on Tuesday in the wake of the forced ouster of cofounder and editor in chief Julia Angwin.

Jon Keegan resigned his position as an investigative data journalist. He previously spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal working as a visual correspondent and director of interactive graphics. He most recently had been at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism as a senior research fellow.

Lauren Kirchner resigned her position as an investigative reporter. She had been with The Markup since October 2018 and previously worked at ProPublica as a senior reporting fellow on the “Machine Bias” series. She holds a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Surya Mattu resigned his position as an investigative data journalist. He had been with The Markup since September 2018 and previously was a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab/Center for Future Civic Media. He also worked as a data reporter on the special projects desk at Gizmodo.

Adrianne Jefferies, an investigative reporter, resigned a position at The Markup that she had just started in March. She was previously future editor at The Outline and managing editor at Vice’s tech and science site, Motherboard.

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.