Special Lecture: Global Muckraking
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheJournalists play a central role in checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds and exposing government corruption. Anya Schiffrin will share some insights into the most important examples of muckraking journalism around the globe of the last century: what can we learn for today?
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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 |
