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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State and local transportation officials are responding to a federal court decision Monday that ruled the federal mask mandate on public transportation was “unlawful.” -
Last week, Gov. Ned Lamont tested positive for COVID-19. On Sunday, it was Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz. A spokesman for Bysiewicz said in a statement Monday morning that the lieutenant governor tested positive after a regularly scheduled rapid self- test Sunday. She took a PCR test Monday morning and is awaiting the results. -
Restaurants can continue to serve food outdoors for another 13 months, as they work to find ways to both serve customers and be COVID-safe.
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The state has reached a $602,000 settlement with an ambulance service that it said overbilled and misled the Connecticut Medicaid program.
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Connecticut officials say they’ve got a 20-year agreement with helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky to keep the company in the state should it win a federal contract to make two new lines of military helicopters. -
A ransomware attack has hit payroll services company Ultimate Kronos Group, or UKG.
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Tropical Storm Henri has made landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island. -
Doug Hendrix calls himself a weekend skydiver. But, earlier this month, he took it to a new level. Hendrix, who’s from Storrs, made what is believed to be… -
As Connecticut legislators debated a proposal Tuesday to remove the religious exemption to mandatory vaccination for school-aged children, a large crowd… -
A tense hourslong standoff with an armed man in Branford that included heavy gunfire ended Tuesday evening when police found the suspect dead in the…
