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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Richard Cohen


Role
  
Journalist

Spouse
  
Meredith Vieira (m. 1986)

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Full Name
  
Richard Mark Cohen

Born
  
February 14, 1948 (age 76) (
1948-02-14
)

Residence
  
Irvington, New York, United States

Occupation
  
Journalist, television producer, author

Notable credit(s)
  
Former producer on CBS News & CNN

Books
  
Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

People also search for
  
Meredith Vieira, Richard Cohen

Children
  
Benjamin Edwin Cohen, Gabriel Anthony Cohen, Lily Max Cohen

Profiles

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Richard Merrill Cohen (born February 14, 1948) is an American journalist, television producer, and author. He is a former senior producer for CBS News and CNN.

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Career

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Cohen is the recipient of several honors in journalism. He is a three-time Emmy award-winning CBS News journalist.

He is a former senior producer for CBS News and CNN, and he occasionally writes columns for the "Health and Fitness" section of The New York Times.

Biography

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Cohen is the son of Teresa (Beitzer) and Benjamin Cohen, a doctor. He has had multiple sclerosis since he was 25 years old. He has also had two bouts of colon cancer, one in 1999 and one in 2000.

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Cohen, who is legally blind, has written an autobiography titled, Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir.

Cohen married television personality Meredith Vieira (NBC News Special Correspondent and former co-anchor of NBC's Today Show) on June 14, 1986. They live in Irvington, Westchester County, New York and have three children. Their middle child, Gabe Cohen, was a reporter at KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington and is now a reporter at KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington.

Richard Merrill Cohen should not be confused with Washington Post columnist Richard Martin Cohen Richard Cohen (columnist).

Published works

  • Cohen, Richard M. (2004). Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0060014094. 
  • Cohen, Richard M. (2008). Strong At The Broken Places. Harper. ISBN 978-0060763114. 
  • Cohen, Richard M. (2012). I Want to Kill the Dog. Blue Rider Press. ISBN 978-0399162039. 
  • References

    Richard M. Cohen Wikipedia