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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A new report documents how economically widespread and profitable the Transatlantic Slave Trade was in Connecticut — for farmers and for the state’s insurance companies. -
The newly restored Greens Ledge Light off Norwalk is open for public tours, the first time in its more than 120-year history that it has welcomed paying public visitors. -
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State officials assured residents that federal subsidies should help cover the health insurance rate hikes announced last week – at least for some.
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A nonprofit organization has agreed to buy Killingworth’s 300-acre Deer Lake property and preserve it as open space, ending months of concern that the property would be sold to a private developer.Pathfinders Inc., which operates the Deer Lake Camp and Wilderness School, announced on a website Thursday that it had signed a contract with the Connecticut Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts of America to buy the camp for $4.75 million. The agreement covers the property, its buildings and other improvements. The closing is scheduled for Sept. 15. -
End-of-summer travelers will likely take to the roads just like they did before there was a pandemic, according to a spokesperson for the American Automobile Association. -
Connecticut residents who think they’ll need help paying their winter home heating bills this fall can apply for assistance as of Thursday, the state announced. -
New England fuel inventories are low. One expert says that's largely due to the war in Ukraine and the American exports sent overseas to Europe. But while that means there's some concern about winter heating oil in the Northeast, one expert says that -- barring a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico -- producers will soon refocus their output on the domestic market before winter hits. -
U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, along with U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, all signed a letter earlier this month calling on Congress to appropriate more money to what’s called LIHEAP — the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. At a news conference Monday, Blumenthal said the need is urgent, and it will become more so as cold weather sets in. -
State officials released new data Thursday that show Connecticut student achievement is still below pre-pandemic levels. And even though there is some room for optimism, it’s hard to ignore this: Last year’s test data is lower than the three most recent pre-pandemic years, and that’s true for students across the board – those with high needs and those without.
