2025 is set to see the transatlantic gulf on how to regulate online speech become even wider. Regulators in the EU are demanding greater regulation of platforms than ever, but the US has made clear th...
Anya Schiffrin
Anya Schiffrin is a senior lecturer in the discipline of international and public affairs and faculty co-director of the Technology Policy and Innovation concentration at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She previously directed the Technology, Media, and Communications 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 last decade on the media in Africa. More recently she has become focused on solutions to the problem of online disinformation, earning her PhD (with honors) on the topic from the University of Navarra.
Her research with economist Haaris Mateen on the valuation of news has been cited in the Atlantic, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post and many other publications. She is a leading thinker and commentator on AI and publishing, media sustainability as well as mis/disinformation and media impact.
She is the editor of Women in the Digital World (Routledge, 2023), Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms and Governments Control the News (Columbia University Press, 2021), African Muckraking: 75 years of Investigative journalism from Africa (Jakana, 2017) and Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World (New Press, 2014).
Research shows that more and more Americans are turning to non-journalistic sources for their information. Americans who voted for Donald Trump were especially unlikely to get their information from j...
Who is winning the ongoing battle between platforms and publishers? This panel delves into the global impact of the world-first Australian News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) introduced in 2021, examini...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising how we gather, process, and disseminate information. The future impact of this revolution hinges on our technological choices. This panel will address c...
It’s no secret that there’s a funding and financing crisis for journalism everywhere around the world. Most of the money to support independent media around the world comes from philanthropies, go...
In many emerging economies, democracy often depends on independent, public-interest journalism to hold the government accountable. This type of journalism – mired in impenetrable policy and deep-div...
Australia’s path-breaking 2021 legislation, which got Google and Meta to pay more than 300 million dollars to media outlets, is being watched by countries around the world that want to emulate it. H...
The last two years have seen moves by governments and foundations around the world to support quality journalism as well as new data that gives insights into how digital native outlets survive and thr...
Global efforts to sustain journalism as a public good have increased in urgency in parallel with escalating pandemic-era threats. Newspaper sales in low- and middle-income countries have been particul...
Surviving the cash crunch: what donors (and Western-oriented media development groups) need to hear from start-ups in the Global South
Is it reasonable to expect digital media start-ups in the Global South to find ways to become sustainable beyond donor funding? A Montclair State University study revealed that the success of non-dono...
Network Propaganda: manipulation, disinformation, and radicalization in American politics
Presentation of the book Network Propaganda. Manipulation, disinformation, and radicalization in American politics (Oxford University Press, 2018) by Robert Faris. Moderated by Anya Schiffrin. Is so...
Media capture, the control of journalism outlets by business tycoons and their government cronies, has already existed. In the digital age however it takes new forms. This panel will discuss the role ...
We live in a time when trust is in decline: trust in politicians, trust in institutions, trust in media, even trust in experts. We are drowning in spin and opinions at the same time as many of us are ...
What does it take to launch a media startup in the Global South that does serious reporting on the subjects that matter? How do these outlets survive in climates that are cracking down on journalism? ...
With press freedom increasingly under attack and violence against journalists on the rise, there is much to be said about the state of media today. Most media organizations, however, shy away from rep...
Investigative journalists have much in common, not least an obsessive attention to detail and a compulsion to keep digging when most normal people would move on. But are these inherent character trait...
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