Richard M. Cohen

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Richard M. Cohen
Born
Richard Merrill Cohen

(1948-02-14) February 14, 1948 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • television producer
  • author
Notable creditFormer producer on CBS News & CNN
Spouse
(m. 1986)
Children3

Richard Merrill Cohen (born February 14, 1948) [1] is an American journalist, television producer, and author. He is a former senior producer for CBS News and CNN.

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Career

Cohen is the recipient of several honors in journalism. He is a three-time Emmy award-winning CBS News journalist. [2] [3]

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

Cohen is the son of Teresa (Beitzer) and Benjamin Cohen, a doctor. [4] 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. [5]

Cohen, who is legally blind, [6] has written an autobiography titled, Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir. [7]

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 [8] and at KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington and is now a reporter for CNN based out of their Washington, D.C. bureau. [9]

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References

  1. Richard M. Cohen at IMDb
  2. Richard Cohen (February 22, 2004). "Larry King Live transcript". Larry King: Live (Interview). Interviewed by Larry King. CNN. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
  3. "Meredith Vieira Today". iVillage. June 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-01-20. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
  4. "Cohen, Benjamin MD". Hartford Courant. February 24, 2008. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  5. Judith Newman (2002). "Meredith Vieira: A Look Back". The Ladies' Home Journal. Archived from the original on 2007-02-16. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  6. "TV's Meredith Viera, Husband Cope With Illness". ABC News 20/20 website. January 30, 2004. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  7. Cohen, Richard M. (2004). Blindsided: A Reluctant Memoir. HarperCollins Publishers.
  8. "Gabe Cohen: Meet the KHQ Local News Team". KHQ-TV.
  9. "Meredith Vieira Is Moved to Tears After Mystery Guest Delivers Mother's Day Surprise—Watch the Emotional Clip". EOnline.com. 2015-05-10. Retrieved 2015-09-15.

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