Anya Schiffrin is the director of the technology and media specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and lectures 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 and the extractive sector. Schiffrin served for nine years as a member of the advisory board of the Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism, and she is currently on the OSF Global Board. Schiffrin’s most recent book is African Muckraking: 75 Years of Investigative Journalism from Africa (Jacana, 2014).
