Anya Schiffrin (born December 6, 1962) is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications (TMaC) specialization at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Biography

Schiffrin is an American former business journalist. Previously, she freelanced and worked as an editor in

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, a stringer for

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, a senior financial writer at ''

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'' in New York, bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in

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and

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, and a writer for many other publications. She was a former Knight-Bagehot academic

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in business journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Schiffrin is an alumna of

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. As well as her role in the

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, Schiffrin serves on a number of boards including th
Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism
Global Board and the advisory board of the

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(formerly named Revenue Watch Institute). She writes on journalism and development as well as the media in Africa and the extractive sector, amongst other topics. Her most recent book is
Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World
' (New Press 2014). She is the daughter of the author and publisher

André Schiffrin André Schiffrin (June 14, 1935 – December 1, 2013)Robert D. McFadde ''New York Times'', December 1, 2013 was a French-American author, publisher and socialist. Life Schiffrin was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Schiffrin, a Russian Jew w ...

, and the sister in law of the lawyer

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. She was married on October 29, 2004, to Nobel Prize-winning

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and author Joseph E. Stiglitz, who also teaches at

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. In 2011, her Reuters columns about the gender balance at Davos attracted international attention.

Books

*
Media in the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
'' (2017) (Editor) *''Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World'' (2014) (Editor) * ''From Cairo to Wall Street: Voices from the Global Spring'' (2012) (Co-editor with Eamon Kircher-Allen) * ''Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century'' (2011) (Editor) * ''Covering Labor: A Reporter's Guide to Worker's Rights in a Global Economy'' (2006) (Co-editor with

Liza Featherstone Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist and journalism professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism for ''The Nation'' and ''Jacobin''. Early life and education Featherstone was born in Washington, D.C ...

) * ''Covering Oil: A Reporter's Guide to Energy and Development'' (2005) (Co-editor with Svetlana Tsalik) * ''Business and Economic Reporting: Covering Companies, Financial Markets and the Broader Economy'' (2005) (Co-author with Margie Freaney and Jane M. Folpe) * ''Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters'' (2004) (Co-editor with Amer Bisat)

References

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