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MY SUPER-AWESOME WIDE-RANGING MEDIA EXPERIENCECreator and co-host of the much-beloved weekly call-in radio show Shut Up, Weirdo (shutupweirdo.com) on WFMU. (2008-present).
Associate Editor, Newsweek Magazine. Edited copy for domestic, international, and Web versions of the much-beleaguered magazine. Worked with writers, top editors, production, and photo staff to publish stories on a timely basis. Other varied duties included fact-checking, research, some writing and reporting, and supervising and training interns and temp editors (2000-present).Staff copy editor, Martha Stewart Living Magazine (1997-2000).Web editor, Audible.com. Created strategy for design and content of pre-launch prototype site (1997).Freelance consulting editor for Crossover Technologies, an Internet games developer, creating news-based content for President 96 and Reinventing America, two online political-simulation games (1996-97).Copy editor, The Moscow Times, an English-language daily in Russia s capital (1995).
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCEFull-time freelance copy editor at Los Angeles Magazine (1992-94).Freelance editor-in-chief of Infiniti Perspectives, a general-interest magazine for Infiniti owners created by the car company s L.A.-based ad agency, Hill, Holliday (1991-92).News assistant at The Wall Street Journal, New York bureau. Wrote numerous news and feature stories, one of which appeared in the best-of anthology listed below (1988-90).Editorial assistant at The Columbia University Record, a weekly newspaper for the school s faculty and staff (1984-87), and at Columbia Magazine, the alumni monthly (1987-88).
OTHER STUFF I VE DONE, USUALLY FOR LITTLE OR NO MONEYI currently blog at thatandycohen.com and bellcurved.com (a site about higher ed). Samples of my published work from Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, and elsewhere are online at andrewcohen.info.Consulting freelance editor for launch of Newsweek Pakistan (2010). As a stand-up comedian, I performed at Comix, Babyhole, and Stand-Up NY (2009).Member of the board of trustees of the Elysian Charter School, a public institution in Hoboken, N.J. (2003-05).Taught a weekly after-school Money Club (business and economics) for middle-school students at Elysian Charter (2002-03).I wrote several entries for The People s Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century: The Definitive Compendium of Astonishing Events, Amazing People, and Strange But-True Facts (Little Brown, 1995).My WSJ feature on educational films appears in the anthology Dressing for Dinner in the Naked City and Other Stories from the Wall Street Journal s Middle Column (Hyperion, 1994).I co-authored, with Beth Heinsohn, Know Your Government: The Department of Defense (Chelsea House, 1990), a book for school-age readers.
EDUCATIONColumbia University. B.A., 1988. Major in history, minor in political science.
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