Glenda co-founded Rappler in July 2011 and is its current executive editor.

She became a journalist months before the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986 that ousted the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. As a reporter, Glenda worked for newspapers, magazines, international news agencies, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism — covering politics, security, human rights, among others. She has also managed newsrooms in the print, online, and TV industries. From 2008 to January 2011, she served as the chief operating officer of ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel in the Philippines.

Glenda earned her journalism degree at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. A British Chevening scholar, she holds a master’s degree in political sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2018, Glenda finished her Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard University.

The books that she has authored include “Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao,” with Marites Dañguilan-Vitug, a groundbreaking book on the conflict in Mindanao that won the National Book Award. In 2011, she wrote “The Enemy Within: An Inside Story on Military Corruption,” with the late Aries Rufo and Gemma Bagayaua-Mendoza.