Not Really Enough: Foreign Donors and Journalism Training in Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda
Journalism Practice, Volume 4:3
Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs
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)
Journalism Practice, Volume 4:3
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Volume 66:340
The New Press
Journal of International Affairs
Fudan University Press
Professor and TMAC Director Anya Schiffrin and co-author Harris Mateen write about how news organizations can get Meta and Facebook to pay them a fair deal, and have calculated that this number is in the billions of dollars.
Professor and TMAC Director Anya Schiffrin with co-authors Dr. Patrick Holder and Dr. Haris Tabakovic, estimate the amount of money that Meta and Google should pay US news publishers for the value of the journalism and information they produce.
A study coauthored by Anya Schiffrin says current agreements between the major platforms and news publishers “do not capture the full value generated by news content.”
Governments are asking whether Google and Facebook are paying their fair share to news publishers for the news disseminated on their platforms. A new study coauthored by Columbia SIPA Professor Anya Schiffrin finds that Google and Meta may owe news organizations $11-14 billion.
Professor Anya Schiffrin and Brigitte Alfter examine government funds that support journalism in the funders’ country and summarise how such funds are designed and allocated, providing examples from around the world.