Nick Cohen Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

New York, New York, US

• Head of product for Reuters News Agency (the B2B news arm of Reuters).
• Oversee a portfolio of products relied on 24/7 by the world’s news publishers, broadcasters & platforms.
• Responsible for product strategy & vision, product development and product management for the agency’s core subscription products (including newswires, video, photography & archives) as well as related newsroom.
• Lead & coach a high-performing, diverse international team of product managers.
• Championed the adoption of AI at Reuters and launched multiple AI-powered features, including Reuters first AI video analysis product (‘AViSTA’), providing automated video shot-listing, transcription, translation &.

New York, New York, US

• Head of product for Reuters video and television services globally.
• Set the strategic vision and led transformation of Reuters video product portfolio.
• Successfully executed a two-year transformation programme to radically simplify the portfolio, re-launch key services and work with the engineering team to move video production and distribution into the cloud.
• Built & launched the Reuters Live service, a hugely successful new product delivering significant ongoing, double-digit revenue growth.
• Designed & launched a new generation of the Reuters 'World News Express' broadcast integration platform, successfully taking a new hardware product to market globally.

London, England, GB

• Part of senior management team at a fast-growth digital start-up (backed by All3Media, Liberty Global & Discovery.)
• Company operated internationally, specialising in creating, distributing, optimising & monetising video on digital platforms such as YouTube, Facebook & Instagram for major broadcasters, publishers and rights owners.
• Reported to the founder and CEO, with a wide-ranging senior management role spanning strategy, development, revenue generation and executive production.

London, GB

• Head of ‘MediaCom Beyond Advertising’, the digital innovation & content division of MediaCom, the UK’s leading media agency (part of WPP/GroupM).
• Led and managed a 50-strong, cross-functional team of specialists spanning content strategy, SEO, social media, UX design and production.
• Reported to the CEO of MediaCom UK and held P&L management responsibility for the division.
• Built award-winning digital & content experiences for multiple blue chip clients, including Volkswagen, Coca Cola, Direct Line Group, Shell, Sony, the UK Government, Cancer Research UK and many more.
• Led MediaCom’s strategic thinking about the role of content in building brands; developing and communicating frameworks for use across the company and working directly with board level clients to implement digital.

London, England, GB

• Led the BBC's portfolio of factual & lifestyle web products including BBC Food, BBC Health, BBC Arts and BBC Gardening: re-launching them in 2010 to collectively double audience reach to over 5 million unique users a.
• Oversaw digital strategy & online output for the BBC’s factual TV show brands and worked with channel controllers and TV commissioners to develop major innovative new cross-platform products and services based on TV.
• Commissioning Editor for the BBC’s digital projects across factual, documentary & arts genres, responsible for a £6m commissioning fund for digital innovation, online products and cross-platform television formats.
• Commissioned and executive produced multiple award-winning digital & cross-platform projects, including Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention (BAFTA TV awards New Media winner 2011), Britain From Above (Digital Emmy.
• From 2005 to 2007 I was Commissioning Editor of ‘BBCi’, the BBC’s Emmy award-winning 24/7 interactive news, information & entertainment service, responsible for editorial strategy, content commissioning and product.
• During my time as commissioning editor the service achieved its highest ever peak in usage, regularly reaching an audience of over 12m a week in the UK & winning the 2007 international Emmy award for ‘Best Interactive.

London, England, GB

• Led new product development for BBC News in digital video, streaming audio, interactive TV & emerging platforms.
• Managed a cross-discipline, agile team responsible for creating a string of ground-breaking and successful new services including the BBC News & Sports Player (a forerunner of BBC iPlayer), 2005’s interactive general.
• Responsible for developing and launching new audio and video features and content across the BBC News website and for managing editorial production products to enable cross-platform video editing and publishing by.

Atlanta, US

• Responsible for digital product development and publishing innovation for CNN, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) brands across multiple European markets.
• Played a key role in launching important new digital services including CNN.com Europe, Cartoon Network’s games channel, CNN International Mobile Text Alerts and CNN and Cartoon Network branded VOD channels.
• Advised Turner Europe board on costing and structuring new media opportunities and served as digital product and production consultant on JV initiatives with partners including Germany’s n-tv, Sweden’s TV4 and Canal+.

London, GB

• Production lead for a multi-disciplinary team (design, technology & editorial) within BBC News developing new kinds of services using then newly emerging streaming video and interactive television technology.
• Launched some of the earliest publicly available interactive TV and on-demand news services in the UK, which won a number of industry awards, including a Royal Television Society award for innovation.

London, GB

Writer, sub editor and audio/video producer for the BBC News website.

London, GB

Writer, producer and duty news editor working across the ITN, Channel 4 News & Euronews websites (at the time all were run from a central ITN digital team).

Interaction design, copywriting & front-end development for clients such as ITV, British Airways & Shell.