Glenda Gloria is managing editor of the newsmagazine Newsbreak. She has worked as a reporter at the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Asahi Shimbun -Manila bureau and was news editor of the Manila Times from 1995-99. She has co-authored books and written various newspaper columns and editorials about the military, rebel movements, and politics in general. She holds a Master's in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.