Anya Schiffrin
Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, USA
Director of Technology, Media, and Communications
US
Anya Schiffrin is the director of the
Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a 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).