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Anya Schiffrin
International Affairs Building, Room 1319
Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs; Director, International Media, Advocacy and Communications Specialization
Phone: 212-854-7188
anya.schiffrin@sipa.columbia.edu
acs76@columbia.edu
Biography:
Anya Schiffrin is the director of SIPA's International Media, Advocacy and Communications Specialization. She spent 10 years working overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia, writing for a number of different magazines and newspapers. She was bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi and wrote regularly for the Wall Street Journal. She was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1999-2000 and then a senior writer at the Industry Standard, covering banking and finance.
In addition to serving as director of the IMAC specialization, Schiffrin directs the journalism training programs of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a global economic think-tank based at Columbia University. The IPD journalism training program has received support from Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. She was the founder of the website www.journalismtraining.net which provides training materials for journalists.
Schiffrin organizes seminars around the world to strengthen the capacity of journalists in developing countries to cover finance and economics. She has taught in Azerbaijan, China, Indonesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, South Africa and Vietnam. She is a regular lecturer at the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin. Five years ago, Schiffrin launched, in collaboration with Columbia's Journalism School, an annual seminar for journalists on "Covering Globalization". The seminar, which has been supported by The New York Times Foundation, attracts journalists from around the world, as well as students from SIPA and the Journalism School.
She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Revenue Watch, an international NGO which seeks to ensure that developing countries receive the full benefit of their natural resources, and that the revenues generated are used, in an open and transparent way, to promote development.
Schiffrin is a member of the sub-board of the Open Society Foundation's Media Program.
Publications:
"Watchdog or lapdog? A look at press coverage of the extractive sector in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda" co-authored with Michael Behrman, James Canonge, and Matthew Purcell. Ecquid Novi, August 2012.
"Are We All Keynesians Now? Press Coverage of the U.S. Stimulus Package" co-authored with Ryan Fagan. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, September 2012.
From Cairo to Wall Street: Voices from the Global Spring, co-editor with Eamon Kircher-Allen. The New Press, 2012.
"The Limits to Foreign Funded Journalism Training in Africa" in Journalism, Education, Training and Employment, edited by Bob Franklin and Donica Mensing. London: Routledge, 2011, pp 97-111.
BAD NEWS: How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the Century, The New Press, 2010.
Review of “Dead Aid” by Dambisa Moyo, Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy, Spring 2009.
“Power and Pressure: African Journalists Cover the Extractive Sector” in the Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2009.
Covering Labor: A Reporter’s Guide to Workers’ Rights in a Global Economy, co-editor with Liza Featherstone, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, 2007.
Covering Business and Economics, with Graham Watts, Fudan University Press, 2007.
"PR in Developing Countries," Where the Truth Lies, Julia Hobsbawm (ed.), 2006, pp 184-194.
Covering Oil: A Reporter’s Guide to Energy and Development, co-editor with Svetlana Tsalik, Open Society Institute, 2005.
Business and Economic Reporting; Covering Companies, Financial Markets and the Broader Economy, International Center for Journalists, 2005, pp 13-31.
Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters, co-editor with Amer Bisat,Columbia University Press, 2004.
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