Glenda Daniels is an associate professor in the Media Studies department at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a PhD in Political Science (Wits University), and is a media freedom and diversity activist. Daniels is a rated scholar with the National Research Foundation (NRF). She is the South African National Editors’ Forum's (Sanef) Gauteng convenor, served on the executive of the South African Communication Association (SACOMM) till 2021, and is on the board of the Press Council of South Africa. She is also an editorial advisory board member at Journalism Studies (London). She was a journalist in the print media industry for over two decades. Her research interests are media, politics and diversity, state of the newsroom, democracy theory, the role of the media in a democracy, freedom of expression and cyber-misogyny. Daniels is author of the books: Power and Loss in South African Journalism: news in the age of social media (2020, Wits Press); Fight for Democracy: the ANC and media in South Africa (2012, Wits Press), co-author of Glass Ceilings: women in South African media Houses, 2018 (2018, Gender Links) and co-editor of the book Women journalists in South Africa: democracy in the age of social media (2022 Palgrave Macmillan, London). She is also a Media Matters columnist at Daily Maverick.