Glenda Cooper is a lecturer in journalism at City University London and a PhD researcher at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, examining the use of user-generated content in humanitarian disasters. She is the editor of The Future of Humanitarian Reporting (City University London, 2014) and co-editor of Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (Peter Lang, 2015).

Previously she was a journalist whose career included staff posts at the BBC, the Independent, Daily Mail, Washington Post and the Daily Telegraph. She was the 14th Guardian Research Fellow, Nuffield College Oxford (2006-7); Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2007-8); and associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford (2008-11).