Andrew Cohen, one of the country’s most respected journalists specializing in criminal justice, has agreed to join The Marshall Project as Commentary and Analysis Editor. In that role, he will preside over an online hub of news, comment, analysis and debate on crime and punishment in the U.S.
Cohen is a national correspondent and contributing editor for legal affairs for The Atlantic, a legal analyst for CBS Radio News and 60 Minutes, and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. He graduated from the Boston University School of Law and was a practicing attorney in Denver before migrating into journalism.
His work has won numerous accolades, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Writer’s Guild Award for Outstanding Commentary, the American Gavel Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Online Column Writing. He has twice won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for distinguished Commentary — most recently this week, for “An American Gulag,” which began as a three-part series on abuses at a maximum security prison and turned into an serial expose of how mentally ill inmates are treated throughout the prison system.
The Marshall Product, which plans to launch later this year, is a non-profit, non-partisan online news organization dedicated to coverage of the American criminal justice system.
In his new position, Cohen will oversee and contribute to a daily compilation of news and comment, interviews and debates and other features aimed at both those who work in the world of criminal justice and a broad general audience.
