Dr Glenda Cooper is the head of the journalism department at City St George’s, University of London, and a reader in journalism studies. She began her academic career specialising in coverage of humanitarian crises and the use of user-generated content. She is the author of ‘Reporting Humanitarian Crises in a Social Media Age’ (Routledge, 2018), and co-editor of ‘Humanitarianism, Communication and Change’ (Peter Lang, 2015) with Prof Simon Cottle. In 2020 she was awarded a British Academy grant with Prof Howard Tumber to research the work of the BBC’s Alistair Cooke, having gained the first permission to access both the Cooke family archives and the BBC archives into his work. She also researches the interdisciplinary field of  live journalism –  (journalism as live event) which brings journalists, artists and the public together. Before academia she worked as a staff reporter and editor at a number of UK national newspapers and the BBC.

Email: glenda.cooper@city.ac.uk