Anya Schiffrin

Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs

Anya Schiffrin is a senior lecturer in the discipline of international and public affairs and faculty codirector of the Technology Policy and Innovation (TPI) concentration at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She previously led the Technology, Media, and Communications
(TMaC) specialization and teaches courses on global media, innovation, and human rights. Dr. Schiffrin writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south, and has published extensively over the past decade on the media in Africa. More recently, she has focused on solutions to online disinformation, earning her PhD with honors on the topic from the University of Navarra. She is the editor of Women in the Digital World (Routledge, April 2023), Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World (The New Press, 2014), and African Muckraking: 75 Years of Investigative Journalism from Africa (Jakana, 2017). She also edited Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News (Columbia University Press, 2021). Her
research with economist Haaris Mateen on the valuation of news has been cited in The Atlantic, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications. She is a leading thinker and commentator on AI and publishing, media sustainability, and
issues related to mis/disinformation and media influence.