Richard M. Cohen Biography

Richard is an American journalist, TV producer, and novelist. He before served as a senior producer for CBS News and CNN, and he sometimes writes essays for The New York Times’ “Health and Fitness” section.

Richard M. Cohen Age

He was born on 14th February 1948, in Plainview, New York, USA. He is 76 years old as of February 2024.

Richard M. Cohen Parents

Cohen is the son to Teresa (Beitzer) and Benjamin Cohen, a physician. He has had multiple sclerosis since young age of 25 years old. He has as well had two bouts of colon cancer, in 1999 and 2000.

Richard M. Cohen Wife

On June 14th 1986, Cohen got married TV star Meredith Vieira (an NBC News Special Correspondent and former co-anchor of the Today Show). They stayed in Irvington, Westchester County, New York, together with their three children. Gabe Cohen, their middle child, served as a reporter at KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington and KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington, before getting to CNN’s Washington, D.C. bureau.

Richard M. Cohen Career

Cohen has won several journalism awards. He is a three-time Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent. He Before then served as a senior producer for CBS News as well as CNN, and he sometimes writes essays for The New York Times’ “Health and Fitness” section. Cohen, who happens to be legally blind, wrote an autobiography named Blindsided: Raised a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir.

Cohen started serving for The Washington Post in the year 1968 after completing from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As The Washington uploads main Maryland correspondent, he was among the two reporters to break the story of former Vice President Spiro Agnew’s probe. He before then aired national politics, city hall, and education.

Come 1976, he began writing a local column that featured on the top page of The Washington Post Metro section. Its victory, and also the attention of newspaper editors across the nation, made The Washington Post Writers Group to syndicate it nation wide in 1981. He served as a copywriter for The New York Herald Tribune and a reporter for United Press International in New York.

Richard M. Cohen Net Worth

Cohen has a net worth roughly calculated at 1 million dollars.