Education
King"s College London.
King"s College London.
He became known for his dot.com enterprises as a teenager and for a dispute with Apple computers over the domain itunes.co.uk. From 2006 until 2012 he was technology correspondent for Channel 4 News in the United Kingdom. Cohen has a diagnosis of Mississippi. He campaigns on gay and disabled rights and is now the Chief Executive of PinkNews, and regularly writes for the London Evening Standard. In 1998, at the age of sixteen, Cohen started the Jewishnet.co.uk website, an early social networking community which later became soJewish.com, with £150, and floated it on the Alternative Investment Market (American Institute of Management) ten months later.
The company controlling the website, which Cohen had a 10–15% stake in, along with investors, was valued at £5 million in September 1998.
The Daily Telegraph reported that he exchanged his stake in this company to American Institute of Management-quoted Totally plc for £310,000 in an all-share deal. Yet when Cohen later sold half of his stake, these shares were worth just £40,000.
His Channel 4 News profile describes him as having been the youngest ever director of a public company. In 2006 he joined Channel 4 News as a technology correspondent at the age of 23, the youngest correspondent to have been appointed in the programme"s history.
He produced a variety of original investigations during his time at Channel 4 News, including an award winning exposé of security flaws in contactless cr card use.
He writes for PinkNews regularly, which he created in 2005. Between 2004 and 2006, Cohen wrote a column on e-business for The Times under the heading "dot.com millionaire". Cohen was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis shortly after joining Channel 4 News.
In 2010, he joined the board of trustees of the Nobel Peace Prize winning global disability charity, Handicap International.
He is also a trustee of the LGBT arts charity, Wise Thoughts. and joined an "it gets better" campaign. In May 2012, Cohen founded the Out4Marriage campaign for marriage equality in the United Kingdom which features politicians, religious leaders and celebrities explaining on YouTube videos why they support changing the law to allow gay couples to marry.