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Experts Directory
Art Cohen
Part-time Faculty, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production/Television
BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969, History with a minor in Journalism
Art Cohen is an Emmy award winning
filmmaker and journalist whose credits
include PBS, National Geographic, WGBH,
A&E, The Family Channel, USA Network,
and WCVB, Boston. Cohen is also a
reporter and anchor for the CBS owned
and operated all news radio station WBZAMin
Boston, and he teaches in the
broadcast program at the New England
Institute of Art in Brookline,
Massachusetts. He has won two New
England Emmy Awards.
He began his broadcast career in 1967 at
WFCR-FM in Amherst, Massachusetts,
where he rose to the positions of News
Director and Program Director. He was
also news director at WMAS in
Springfield, Massachusetts, and
Executive Producer for News and Public
Affairs at WBUR-FM in Boston,
Massachusetts.
He began his television career at WGBYTV,
in Springfield, where he produced a
series on the environment. In 1976 he
joined WGBH-TV in Boston as a reporter
for its news program and later produced
a series of local documentaries and public
affairs specials for WGBH. He has
produced for the PBS medical series
"Bodywatch" and was senior producer for
"The Western Tradition," a 52-part
instructional series on the history of
western civilization funded by
CPB/Annenberg. He also produced
dozens of segments and programs for
the daily magazine show "Chronicle" on
WCVB-TV in Boston. Since 1994 he has
worked with Oceanic Research Group
and Jonathan Bird Productions making
underwater nature films. Credits include
"Sharks: The Real Story" (1996 - re-cut for
USA Network as "Sharks: Search for a
Frenzy"), "Beneath the North Atlantic"
(1998), "Endangered Mermaids" (2001),
"Silent Wrecks" (2004), "Sharks: Deep
Trouble," (2005), for National
Geographic's international channel.
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