Christopher Schaefer is a fellow at Renew Democracy Initiative. Previously, he was the Communications Manager at RDI. He is the author of the forthcoming report "From Pixels to Prompts: Lessons from the Digital Media Revolution for the Age of AI."
Before joining RDI, he managed U.S. media relations at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and was managing editor of Tocqueville 21, a Franco-American online magazine focused on democracy in the 21st century.
His Cambridge PhD dissertation on the International Herald Tribune and the history of international media before the internet was recently named the best doctoral dissertation in media history by the American Journalism Historians Association.
