Andy's Resume



Andrew B. Cohen
201-993-3342
thatandycohen@gmail.com
www.andrewcohen.info


MY SUPER-AWESOME WIDE-RANGING MEDIA EXPERIENCE
  • Creator 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 EXPERIENCE
  • Full-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 MONEY
  • I 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.

EDUCATION
  • Columbia University. B.A., 1988. Major in history, minor in political science.