During the upheaval of this past spring, the site went from closely watched to the subject of outright voyeurism.

In April, Ms. Angwin was fired. In a letter to Mr. Newmark, the Craigslist founder, she accused Sue Gardner, the executive director and a founder of the site, of ousting her as part of Ms. Gardner’s desire to adopt a tone of frank advocacy against the tech industry. Ms. Gardner disputed that, arguing that there had been problems with Ms. Angwin’s leadership. As Ms. Angwin noted then, most members of the staff followed her out the door.

A month later, on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend, Mr. Newmark wrote on Twitter that Ms. Gardner and The Markup’s third founder, Jeff Larson, a data journalist who joined the site from ProPublica with Ms. Angwin and succeeded her as editor in chief, had departed. Neither Ms. Gardner nor Mr. Larson replied to requests for comment.

Throughout the shake-up, Ms. Angwin and Ms. Syed, who had originally been approached to be The Markup’s general counsel, worked on a business plan and a budget for the site, they said. They considered trying to become part of a larger organization, but ultimately settled on staying independent.

“After working closely with the other funders and the great folks at The Markup, including Julia and Nabiha, I’m happy to continue to support The Markup,” Mr. Newmark said in a statement. The site’s other financial supporters include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust and the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative.

Even after leaving, the editorial employees who resigned continued to work on articles, meeting roughly once a week in Ms. Angwin’s Harlem living room. For now, the staff is working out of temporary office space belonging to WeWork, the tech-happy real estate company that The Markup could conceivably cover one day.

Lauren Kirchner, an investigative reporter who was a Pulitzer finalist at ProPublica for a series she worked on with Ms. Angwin and Mr. Larson, said the site would be able to pick up where it had left off.