The Markup CEO Nabiha Syed’s announcement:
I’m so thrilled to announce that CalMatters is acquiring The Markup in its entirety. The whole world is looking at California for both the innovation that comes out of Silicon Valley and the tech regulation that comes out of Sacramento. Bringing our data-driven approach to the deep CalMatters beats – education, health, housing, AI – is going to create change in California, the country, and the world.
The Markup has done some of the best reporting outside 404Media on data brokers, and that work was instrumental in getting the California Delete Act passed last year that will let you one click delete your information from every registered data broker in a few years when it gets implemented. CalMatters is a good org but I hope The Markup gets to keep doing what they’re doing.