Jeff Cohen
Senior Enterprise ReporterJeff Cohen started in newspapers in 2001 and joined Connecticut Public in 2010, where he worked as a reporter and fill-in host. In 2017, he was named news director. Then, in 2022, he became a senior enterprise reporter.
In addition to covering state and Hartford city politics, Jeff covered the December 2012 Newtown shootings and the stories that followed. In 2012, Jeff was selected by NPR and Kaiser Health News for their joint "Health Care In The States" project. Much of his reporting has aired nationally on NPR. As news director, Jeff began The Island Next Door -- Puerto Rico and Connecticut After Hurricane Maria, which has won several awards, including one national and two regional Edward R. Murrow awards.
Jeff began as a reporter for The Record-Journal in Meriden, Conn. before moving to The Hartford Courant, where he won a National Headliner Award for a story about the ostracized widow of the state's first casualty in Iraq; wrote about his post-Katrina home in New Orleans; and was part of a team that broke stories of alleged corruption at Hartford City Hall that led to the arrest of the city’s mayor. His work has also appeared in The New York Times.
Jeff lives with his wife and two daughters, whose haircutting incident brought the family more notoriety than journalism ever will. He's written two children's books, and he likes hiking, whitewater kayaking, napping outside, and making bread and wine.
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$1.4 million in grant funding will go to pay for personalized intervention and support for young people in Hartford's juvenile justice system.
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About 44,000 low-level cannabis possession convictions are expected to be expunged in early 2023. But some other convictions are expected to take longer. -
Democratic Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin says he won’t run for reelection next year, ending an eight-year run. -
Communities across the country are hoping to get a piece of the $3 billion set aside in recent federal legislation for projects that will protect coasts and shoreline communities. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut is giving federal authorities some early feedback. -
Sen. Chris Murphy called her one of the most productive speakers in history. -
Connecticut ‘hero pay’ applicants could get a quarter of every dollar promised, unless lawmakers actComptroller-elect Sean Scanlon says lawmakers only set aside roughly $30 million to give one-time payments to eligible COVID-19 workers. -
A memorial to the 26 people who died during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting quietly opened to the public on Sunday. -
The Connecticut State Board of Education voted Wednesday to order an investigation into the Killingly school district for its refusal to open a school-based mental health center at its high school. -
The CEO of Eversource is calling on President Biden to ensure New England is ready to meet power supply challenges in the event of extreme winter weather. -
Children in New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Hartford and Meriden made up 49% of cases between 2012 and 2020. And, although the numbers are generally improving, lead poisoning disproportionately hits children of color — affecting mental, behavioral and educational health.
