Charles Cooper Email & Phone Number

San Francisco

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco

Experience makes a difference. Yours truly has been writing about technology and business since 1985 for a range of major publications. These days I run my own shop and help companies and executives tell their stories to customers and the outside world in clear, concise English.

San Francisco Bay Area

As Executive News Editor, I was in charge of managing reporters and directing news coverage from the West Coast headquarters of CNET News.com, an award-winning Internet publication covering business and culture news about the technology industry. Responsible for assigning and editing spot news as well as for developing longer-form features, galleries and.

San Francisco Bay Area

At CBSNews.com I was part of the team that relaunched the news website, where I was in charge of Science & Technology as well as the Opinions sections. Also was responsible for populating both sections with entertaining and high-profile content. I wrote, assigned and edited stories and columns as both sections registered 30 percent-plus traffic gains.

New York, Boston And San Francisco

I had an 11-year career working at Ziff Davis, the biggest publisher of computer and technology magazines of its era. I was part of the team that relaunched the monthly magazine Computer Shopper after Ziff Davis acquired it from Patch Communications. I assigned and edited articles while being responsible for managing a team of freelancers who contributed.

New York City

After four years as a reporter and later, San Francisco bureau chief, I became the editor-in-chief of this award-winning news weekly covering the retail side of the computer business. I led a staff of 20 reporters and copy editors and was responsible for the publication's editorial direction. Additionally, I was responsible for budgeting as I set editorial.

New York City

Worked for AP sports department in New York, writing daily stories and features about baseball and basketball.

Ma, Middle Eastern Studies

Ba, Political Science

Activities and Societies: I was a news editor on the Queens College newspaper called "The Phoenix."