A native of Ohio, Gliha attended the
Annenberg School for Communication at the
University of Southern California between 1998 and 2002. Gliha graduated summa cum laude as the outstanding broadcast journalism undergraduate from
University of Southern California. She worked at
WILX-TV in
Lansing, Michigan;
WNEM-TV in
Saginaw, Michigan; and
KNXV-TV in
Phoenix, where she spent six years as an investigative reporter and weekend evening anchor. In 2013, Gliha joined
Al Jazeera America's flagship show
America Tonight, serving as one of the network's first national correspondents. Based out of Washington, D.C., she covered stories across the country in addition to reporting in studio along with anchor
Joie Chen. After Al Jazeera America closed, she joined the investigative team at
Insight with John Ferrugia, a production of
Rocky Mountain PBS in
Denver. A piece she reported on child sex trafficking in Colorado, "Traded and Trafficked", was nominated for a national
News & Documentary Emmy. In 2019, she joined the investigative reporting team at
KDVR in that city. In 2021, her feature story reporting on ketamine in Colorado received a national
Edward R. Murrow Award and
Gracie Award. ==References==