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Roger Cohn is an American journalist who is currently the editor of Yale Environment 360, an online magazine focused on environmental journalism. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones.

Background
James Gustave Speth, then dean of the Yale School of Forestry, first proposed the idea of a Yale-sponsored environmental website in 2007. Speth hired Roger Cohn, former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon, to be E360's first editor. Cohn described his vision for E360 at the time as "a publication that straddles the line between more academic and specialized environmental sites and more general green lifestyle sites."

E360 officially launched on June 3, 2008 with articles by Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and other writers. The website was redesigned in 2017.

Yale Environment 360 is funded using a non-profit journalism model by private foundations and donors. Major donors include the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the William Penn Foundation.

Career
Yale Environment 360 has a staff of three permanent employees; it solicits contributions from journalists, scholars, policymakers, and other experts. Notable people who have contributed articles to E360 include: writers Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, Michael Grunwald, Orville Schell, Jeff Goodell, Alex Shoumatoff, Carl Zimmer, Richard Conniff, Steven Kotler, Isabel Hilton, Jo Chandler, Fred Pearce, Robert Engelman, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Caroline Fraser, Elisabeth Rosenthal, and Rick Bass; United States Senators Tim Wirth and Tom Daschle; former United States Ambassador to the European Union C. Boyden Gray; former Council on Environmental Quality chair James Gustave Speth; historian Douglas Brinkley; mountaineer David Breashears; former Sierra Club director Carl Pope; economists Dieter Helm and Frank Ackerman; and scientists Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, Michael E. Mann, James Hansen, Peter Wadhams, Mike Hulme, and Vaclav Smil.