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Glenda Cooper è attualmente redattrice e scrittrice freelance. È stata ricercatrice Guardian 2006-7 per il Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism presso l'Università di Oxford, carica finalizzata con il quattordicesimo discorso Guardian intitolato Anyone Here Survived a Wave, Speak English and Got a Mobile? Aid agencies, the media and reporting disasters since the tsunami (Qualcuno Qui E' Sopravvissuto a un'Onda Anomala, Parla Inglese e Ha un Telefonino? Agenzie di assistenza, i media e la cronaca dei disastri dallo tsunami). Ha studiato letteratura inglese presso il St. Hilda College a Oxford e il giornalismo presso la City University a Londra. Ha iniziato la sua carriera giornalistica come apprendista, poi specialista e opinionista per The Independent, e conseguentemente come scrittrice e redattrice di punta per The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard e The Daily Telegraph. Ha presentato Channel 4 Radio News Morning Report ed è stata inviata per BBC News 24 e per i programmi di BBC Radio 4 The World at One e PM. Nel 2001 ha ricevuto la Laurence Stern Fellowship per The Washington Post; a settembre e ottobre ha passato cinque mesi a New York riportando notizie sugli attacchi dell'11 Settembre per il quotidiano. La sua ricerca per il Reuters Institute indaga sull'utilizzo dei nuovi media e il rapporto tra le agenzia di assistenza e i giornalisti. Si intitola:  The End of the Affair – or a new Love Story? How closely do the agendas of aid agencies and the media converge, how is this changing, and what is the effect on coverage of disasters? (La Fine della Storia - o una nuova Love Story? In quale modo convergono gli scopi delle agenzie di assistenza e dei media, come sta cambiando tutto ciò, e qual'è l'effetto sulla cronaca dei disastri?)

mercoledì 21 aprile - ore 11.00

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Glenda Cooper is currently a freelance feature writer and editor. She was the 2006-7 Guardian research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, culminating in the 14th Guardian lecture entitled Anyone Here Survived a Wave, Speak English and Got a Mobile? Aid agencies, the media and reporting disasters since the tsunami. She studied English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and journalism at City University, London. She began her journalistic career as a trainee, then as a specialist and columnist on The Independent, subsequently working as a staff feature writer and editor on The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph. She presented the Channel 4 Radio News Morning Report and also worked as a correspondent for BBC News 24 and The World at One and PM programmes on BBC Radio 4. In 2001 she was awarded the Laurence Stern Fellowship for The Washington Post; in September and October she spent five weeks in New York covering the September 11th attacks and their aftermath for the paper. Her research for the Reuters Institute looks further into the use of new media, and the relationship between aid agencies and journalists and is entitled: The End of the Affair – or a new Love Story? How closely do the agendas of aid agencies and the media converge, how is this changing, and what is the effect on coverage of disasters?

wednesday 21 april - 11.00