Education
Reed College.
Reed College.
Schiffrin is an American former business journalist. Previously, Schiffrin was editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based daily newspaper The Turkish Times, a stringer for Reuters in Barcelona, senior financial writer at The Industry Standard in New York, bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi, and a writer for many other publications. She was a former Knight-Bagehot academic fellow in business journalism at Columbia"s Graduate School of Journalism.
Schiffrin is an alumna of Reed College.
She is also on the Advisory Board of the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University, the Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism and the 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). In 2011 her comments about the gender balance at Davos attracted international attention.
As well as her role in the School of International and Public Affairs, Schiffrin is also the director of journalism training programs at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, which was founded by Joseph Stiglitz, the reported chair of the Socialist International Commission on Global Financial Issues, and which has been described as an international network of economists based at Columbia.