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Nancy Eve CohenRadio reporting and podcastingLecturer
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Nancy Eve Cohen teaches Reporting and Writing for Radio and Podcasting. Nancy believes radio can be a “visual” medium, based on the details of close-up sound and robust writing.
In addition to teaching at UMass, Nancy is the environmental reporter for WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio and the Managing Editor of the Northeast Environmental Hub, a collaboration of 20 public radio stations.
Her environmental reporting has taken her north of the Arctic Circle, and south to the oiled beaches following the Gulf oil spill.
Nancy’s stories have aired on National Public Radio, the CBC in Canada, Marketplace and CBS Radio. She has also written for the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal.
She began her journalism career in television, producing award-winning environmental documentaries and recording sound for network television.
Her TV work included a rare interview with Fidel Castro in Cuba and coverage of the war in Sarajevo in 1992.
After completing graduate work at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Nancy worked as the overnight editor on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition in Washington, D.C., and later as an editor of All Things Considered and NPR’s midwest editor.
Nancy has held environmental fellowships at the University of Alaska’s Toolik Field Station, at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, and at the Universities of Maine and Colorado.
She was named the 2008 Environmental Reporter of the Year by the Rivers Alliance of Connecticut. In 2009 she received a First Place award for her story “Dam Removal Helps Fish, Stirs Up Controversy” from the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists.
Nancy is most proud of the rare honor of having a cow named after her in response to her stories on New England dairy farming.
