Sociology Compass
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
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism
The New Press
In The Media
Professor and TMAC Director Anya Schiffrin, due to her recent research, predicts that next year will see alliances of news publishers around the world trying again to get payments from Google, and possibly Meta, influenced by the successes of Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code.
The recent working paper by Anya Schiffrin and her coauthors on what companies like Meta and Google owe news organizations, cited here, continues to get attention.
Anya Schiffrin contributed to this op-ed piece discussing how existing deals do not capture the full value that news content generates for Google and Facebook.
Former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio spoke on a panel at a recent conference organized by SIPA's Anya Schiffrin.
Professor and TMAC director Anya Schiffrin, along with her co-authors, have estimated that Google owes U.S. news organizations $10 billion a year, with Meta owing them $2 billion a year, in compensation.