Glenda Cooper is a researcher and journalist. Her research interests focus upon user-generated content, reporting of NGOs and humanitarian issues, conflict reporting. Before returning to study, Glenda was a journalist working at national level for over a decade including the BBC and Channel 4 News, the Independent, Daily Mail, Washington Post (2001 Laurence Stern Fellow), Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. She was also a Guardian Research Fellow and visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute.