Lisa R. Cohen is an Emmy award winning television news magazine producer with over twenty years of network news experience at both ABC News and CBS News.
Her first book, After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive, will be published by Grand Central Publishing on May 7, 2009.
Biography and career highlights
editAt “PrimeTime Live” and then at “60 Minutes II,” Cohen produced reports for Diane Sawyer, Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings, Cynthia McFadden and others, on topics as diverse as the right to bear arms, have abortions and exercise the death penalty. She has covered some of the biggest moments in recent history including the TWA 800 crash, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the September 11 terror attacks. Her 1996 one-hour documentary for ABC News PrimeTime Live, “Judgment at Midnight,” won multiple awards, including the NATAS Emmy; CINE Golden Eagle; International Film and Television Award; and the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television “Gracie” award.
In addition to writing After Etan, Cohen is hard at work on a documentary following one extraordinary woman who spent a year fighting (and beating) breast cancer and was then inspired to take on the American health care system. Cohen is also a media consultant and teaches journalism/television production at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Recently she was also a Princeton University Ferris Professor of Journalism.
She grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Philadelphia, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in International Relations and French. She is married and lives in New York City.
After Etan
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After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive tells the story of Etan Patz, the most famous missing child since the Lindbergh baby. Etan quite literally became the poster child for the new missing children's movement after the streets of New York City were plastered with his missing posters. May 25th is recognized as National Missing Children's Day in honor of Etan and all the other children who tragically go missing in America.
Cohen first learned about Etan's unsolved case while at "PrimeTime Live." She subesequently produced several pieces on the story for network television before writing After Etan, which is her first book.
Awards
edit- NATAS Emmy
- CINE Golden Eagle
- International Film and Television Award
- “Gracie” Award, Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television