Anya Schiffrin
Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Focus areas: Media, development, innovation, media in Africa and the extractive sector
Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a senior lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation and human rights. She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south and has published extensively over the last decade on the media in Africa. More recently she has become focused on solutions to the problem of online disinformation, earning her PHD on the topic from the University of Navarra. She is the editor of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World (New Press, 2014) and African Muckraking: 75 years of Investigative journalism from Africa (Jakana 2017). She is the editor of Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms and Governments Control the News (Columbia University Press 2021)
Education
- MS, Columbia University, School of Journalism
- BA, Reed College
Affiliations
- Natural Resource Governance Initiative
- Global Reporting Center, University of British Columbia
- Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
- Thomson Reuters Foundation (US)
- Founder, www.journalismtraining.net
- Media & Journalism Research Center, University of Santiago (Spain)
Research And Publications
In The Media
Anya Schiffrin examines a nonprofit that brings together scholars and journalists to give academic writing exposure before a general audience.
“Laws that seem reasonable on paper… can easily be abused.” Anya Schiffrin discusses how countries outside the United States have tried to address the complex problem of misinformation.
It may be time to consider a general industry body that would assist with peer-to-peer learning and fundraising, channel funds from donors, and do capacity building finds a report authored by Anya Schiffrin.
"Facebook does not understand the marketplace of ideas." Joseph Stiglitz Anya Schiffrin argue that self-regulation of the internet and social media will not work.