Gary Cohn (journalist)

Cohn was born on March 9, 1952, and was a native of Brooklyn, New York. He graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a BA in psychology and political science and studied law, for a year, at University of California, Berkeley. In October 2020, Cohn was awarded a McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, with Eric Pape, a fellow professor at the Annenberg School of Journalism. The prize was awarded so they could "look into the fast-growing anti-vaccine movement and its implications for people and science in the age of Covid-19." ==Career==

Cohn reported for the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, Lexington Herald-Leader, Wall Street Journal, and for the columnist Jack Anderson in Washington. in 1975, after a year of law school at the University of California, Cohn went to work as an investigator at the Southern Research Council. Cohn left in 1980 to work as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader specializing in investigative reporting. While at the Sun, Cohn and fellow journalist, Will Englund, won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting under Carroll, having been given 18 months to travel and investigate the environmental dangers and hazardous conditions that shipbreakers faced in the mostly unregulated industry. Cohn worked under Carroll again, from 2003 to 2007, at the Los Angeles Times, as an investigative reporter. He reported for a short time, in sports, before leaving to work as a Senior Writer for Bloomberg Markets, (2007–2008) where he won the Bartlett and Steele award with Darrell Preston. ==Death==

Cohn died in Los Angeles on December 23, 2024, at the age of 72. ==Awards==

Cohn won more than 30 prizes for journalism. • 1997 The George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting for "Shipbreakers," with Will Englund and Perry Thorsvik, The Baltimore Sun, for reporting on the hazardous conditions that shipbreakers faced due to lack of training and the effects on the environment. • 1997 The Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, for Newspapers – Circulation More Than 250,000, reporting on "Shipbreakers," with Will Englund, The Baltimore Sun. • 1997 The Whitman Bassow Award from the Overseas Press Club for "Shipbreakers," with Will Englund and Perry Thorsvik, The Baltimore Sun • 1998 the Seldon Ring Award for "Shipbreakers," with Will Englund, The Baltimore Sun ==References==