Rappler Managing Editor Selected As Nieman Fellow

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JOURNALIST GLENDA M. Gloria, the current managing editor of online news site Rappler, has been named a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

Joining 23 other journalists from around the world, Gloria will study the “evolution of journalism and democracy at this time of rapid technological change, and changing relationships between journalists, citizens and democratic institutions.” She will start her fellowship in September 2017. Her time at Harvard is sponsored by the Sandra Burton Scholarship Fund for Filipino Journalists.

Gloria was the former Chief Operating Officer of ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) from 2008 to 2011. She has worked for several media outfits, including the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is also co-founder of Newsbreak.

Among Gloria’s published books are “Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao,” co-authored with Marites Danguilan-Vitug,  and “The Enemy Within: An Inside Story On Military Corruption,” co-authored with the late Aries Rufo and Gemma Bagayaua-Mendoza.

Open to journalists working in all media in every country around the world, the fellowship gives participants the opportunity to take classes in Harvard and at the same time attend Nieman seminars, workshops and master classes. Nieman fellows work on their research with Harvard scholars and other leading thinkers in the Cambridge area.