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Lisa R. Cohen is an Emmy award winning television news magazine producer with over twenty years of network news experience at both ABC and CBS News.

Her first book, Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive'', will be published by Grand Central Publishing on May 7, 2009.

Biography and career highlights
At “PrimeTime Live” and then at “60 Minutes II” Cohen produced reports for Diane Sawyer, Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings, Cynthia McFadden and others, on topics as diverse as the right to bear arms, have abortions and exercise the death penalty. She has covered some of the biggest moments in recent history including TWA 800, the Oklahoma bombing, and the September 11 terror attacks. Her 1996 one-hour documentary for ABC News PrimeTime Live, “Judgment at Midnight,” won multiple awards, including the NATAS Emmy; CINE Golden Eagle; International Film and Television Award; and the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television “Gracie” award.

Cohen first learned about the unresolved story of Etan Patz, who disappeared on May 25, 1979, whlie at "PrimeTime Live." She produced three pieces for network television on the story before writing After Etan.

In addition to writing After Etan, Cohen is hard at work on a long-term documentary following one extraordinary woman who spent a year fighting (and beating) breast cancer, which then inspired her to take on the American health care system. Cohen is also a media consultant and teaches journalism/television production. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and recently was a Princeton University Ferris Professor of Journalism.

Cohen grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Philadelphia, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in International Relations and French. She is married and lives in New York City.

Awards
NATAS Emmy

CINE Golden Eagle

International Film and Television Award

“Gracie” Award, Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television