Online Disinformation: A guest lecture on journalism
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheAnya Schiffrin’s work in journalism took her to Turkey, Spain and Vietnam, among many other countries. Now, she is a renowned lecturer and researcher on investigative journalism, media and development. In her lecture, she speaks on the role of journalism around the world in times of increasing online disinformation and fake news and about the need for high quality and well-researched journalism.
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Anya SCHIFFRIN
Director, Institute of Technology, Media, and Communications, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, New York
| Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She teaches courses on media and development and innovation as well as the course Media, Human Rights and Social Change. Among other topics, she writes on journalism and development as well as the media in Africa and the extractive sector. Schiffrin spent 10 years working overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1999-2000. |
Mag. Thomas SEIFERT
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Wiener Zeitung, Vienna
| 1987-1991 | Bachelor degree course, Biology, University of Salzburg |
| 1991-1998 | Master degree course, Botany, University of Vienna |
| Staff writer, Falter, Vienna | |
| 1999-2005 | Member of the Editorial Staff, Foreign Affairs Section, News, Vienna |
| 1999 | International Media Fellowship, Duke University, Durham, NC |
| 2001 | International Visitors Program, The State Department |
| Lecturer, Danube University, Krems | |
| 2006-2012 | Member of the Editorial Staff, Foreign Affairs Section, Die Presse, Vienna |
| 2009 | Lecturer, University of Vienna |
| since 2012 | Deputy Editor in Chief, Wiener Zeitung, Vienna |
