Anya Schiffrin

Anya Schiffrin is an adjunct faculty member at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She worked in Hanoi from 1997 to 1999 as the bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires.

Recent Articles

Web of Light or Web of Darkness?

The Internet is not always the friend of democracy -- oppressive regimes can use it for their own ends.

A protester during Iran's 2009 Twitter revolution. (AP Photo)

Will the Internet foster democracy by disseminating information, frustrating censorship, and promoting citizen networking that circumvents and subverts repressive governments? The drama of the 2009 demonstrations in Iran (which ultimately failed to change the regime) has been used as evidence of the power of digital networking to defy repressive regimes. And WikiLeaks seems to prove that the genie of censorship cannot be bottled in the Internet Age.

Assignment: Vietnam

Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War From the Other Side

Edited by Doug Niven. National Geographic Society, 240 pages, $50.00