Jeff Cohen (media critic)

Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen
Born	November 10, 1951 (age 72)
Awards	Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award 1993-1994 (with Norman Solomon)
Website	http://www.jeffcohen.org/

Jeff B. Cohen

Fox News Channel's Fox News Watch, for MSNBC and CNN. He appeared in Outfoxed

, a documentary critical of Fox News, and other documentaries.

Biography

Cohen grew up in Detroit and did undergraduate study at the University of Michigan. He studied law at the People's College of Law in Los Angeles and was admitted to the California Bar in 1981. Cohen then worked as a journalist in the L.A. area and after law school was a lawyer for the ACLU. Cohen founded FAIR in 1986 and subsequently served as executive director and on the board of directors.

In 2002 Cohen left FAIR to work full-time for MSNBC as senior

Crossfire

in 1996 and was a regular panelist on FNC's Fox News Watch from 1997 to 2002. Cohen had also been a return commentator at multiple networks.

Cohen was communications director for the

Kucinich presidential campaign

in 2003.

In 2006, Cohen became a volunteer journalist for OpEdNews and has since contributed over 50 articles.^[5]

In 2008, Cohen became the founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College where he is an associate professor in the journalism department. The center studies, educates about, and advocates for non-corporate-controlled, independent news journalists and media outlets. Cohen additionally lectures across the country.

Beginning in the 1990s, Cohen, with Norman Solomon, wrote the "Media Beat" column syndicated in newspapers across the US, wrote occasional commentaries in various newspapers, and wrote a column for

Brill's Content. He also has written investigative pieces for Rolling Stone, New Times, The Nation, Mother Jones, and other publications.^[6]