Career
He is a former senior producer for Columbia Broadcasting System News and Cable News Network. Cohen is the recipient of several honors in journalism. He is a former senior producer for Columbia Broadcasting System News and Cable News Network, and he occasionally writes columns for the "Health and Fitness" section of The New York Times. Cohen is the son of Teresa (Beitzer) and Benjamin Cohen, a doctor.
He has had multiple sclerosis since he was 25 years old.
He has also had two bouts of colon cancer, one in 1999 and one in 2000. Cohen, who is legally blind, has written an autobiography titled, Cohen married television personality Meredith Vieira (National Broadcasting Company News Special Correspondent and former co-anchor of National Broadcasting Company"s Today Show) on June 14, 1986.
They live in Irvington, Westchester County, New York and have three children. Their middle child Gabe Cohen was a reporter at KHQ-television in Spokane, Washington and is now a reporter at KOMO-television in Seattle, Washington.