ProPublica reporters to start newsroom focused on tech investigations

Julia Angwin

ProPublica reporters Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson are leaving to establish a nonprofit newsroom focused on technology-related investigations, reports Dylan Byers of CNNMoney.com

Byers reports, “‘We plan to scale up the work we’ve been doing at ProPublica with a bigger staff of journalists and developers,’ Angwin wrote in an email. ‘Our work will focus on the impact of technology on society:’

“• 1. ‘We will investigate the technology platforms as we have done before with our probes into how Facebook enables advertisers to discriminate by religion age and race and other protected characteristics under civil rights laws.

“• 2. ‘We will investigate the broader impacts of technology on society, as we have done with our deep dives into the racial biases of algorithms used in criminal justice and car insurance pricing.”

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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.