Neil Cohen Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

*Copy edit stories for newsletter and website that covers taxes at the state and local, federal and international level. Areas include local regulations, coverage of trials involving tax matters and how governments' tax policy affects the world.

*Copy editor for Observer.com, editing features for website on Wordpress.•Copy editor for ASME's Mechanical Engineering magazine, editing stories about engineering and technical subjects. Wrote short features on projects including hand-held breast cancer detectors, robotic grippers, self-healing rubbers and invisible glass for trade publication to keep engineers updated on their field.•Copy editor for Benchmark Education Company, taking PDF files for literacy program textbooks and making the posted corrections on InDesign file.•Freelance edited for Patch.com on Long Island.•Wrote New York Mets analysis for Examiner.com.•Wrote articles about pro wrestling for Slantnews.com.•Wrote New York Jets analysis for Football.com.•Copy edited Educated Observer, Commercial Observer, Mortgage Observer Weekly newsletter, Philanthropy section and Scene magazine for The New York Observer.•Covered Long Island Ducks playoffs and high school football for Newsday .

Secaucus, Nj.

•Edited features, news stories and destination articles for Travel Weekly travel trade publication using InCopy. Created headlines for all stories edited and made corrections from editors.•Wrote feature on Tourism Cares, highlighting travel industry-run charitable organization.•Created e-letters using CMS and StoryPorts, providing valuable information to subscribers on subjects such as luxury travel, Europe and Las Vegas.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

•Edited features and news stories for three weekly magazines, including Life & Style, In Touch Weekly, and Closer. Stories covered celebrities, pop culture, diet, fashion and entertainment on Censhare system which incorporated In Copy/InDesign.•Ensured accurate, high-quality content by checking stories, headlines, and cutlines for spelling and grammar, fact-checking with research department and proofreading press releases about magazine stories.

White Plains, Ny

•Edited, wrote headlines and captions for features and news stories for two daily newspapers, the Journal News and Poughkeepsie Journal, and several weekly papers. Stories covered local and national sports and local businesses. •Ensured stories were factually correct and error-free, saving company money on replating pages.•Acted as copy chief, liaison between writers, editors, managers and copy desk; delegated assignments to reach nightly deadlines.•Served as sports night slot manager, giving final approval for pages and catching any remaining errors.•Used good news judgment to choose features for wire roundups, comprising several stories in limited space, placing stories / photos on lohud.com website and rewriting headlines to draw readership.• Fact-checked stories, catching errors such as listing wrong inning during Yankees rally or incorrect spelling of athlete's name.

Woodland Park, Nj

•Led a staff of five reporters covering Passaic County sports for a daily newspaper. •Delegated assignments and assigned space for stories.•Edited newswire and staff copy; wrote headlines.•Laid out pages in QuarkXPress; selected photos and wrote cut lines.

Port Washington, Ny

•Performed copyediting and layout duties for weekly magazines, including editing several well-known columnists, such as Lenn Robbins. •Wrote columns, features and previews of upcoming football games; wrote and helped select the annual selection of the magazine's all-American team.•Handled photography requests for NFL and college football teams

Kew Gardens, Ny

•Covered New York City high school and college sports for a daily newspaper.•Main beats: high school track and basketball, including covering nationally ranked Christ the King girls basketball.•Responsible for developing features, such as one on the Van Cortlandt Park cross-country path.

Melville, Ny

•Covered high school and college sports in the Nassau/Suffolk area, with a specialty in track and field; assembled recreational notebooks about various sports like volleyball, for weekly section.•Backed up on the NY Jets beat, including handling the breaking news when quarterback Ken O'Brien ended his holdout.•Compiled and designed agate pages.