Dr Glenda Cooper is the head of the Department of Journalism at City St George’s, University of London and a reader in journalism studies. She is the author of Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age (Routledge) and co-editor of Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (Peter Lang). She researches in the fields of journalism ethics, live journalism, media representations of refugees, and media freedom and is the UK director of the European Journalism Observatory.