Jeff Cohen is executive vice president and editor of the Houston Chronicle. He was named to the position in May 2002 and formally assumed its responsibilities in June. The Chronicle is the nation’s seventh largest daily newspaper and 10th largest Sunday newspaper. Cohen is the 10th editor of the Chronicle, which was founded in 1901. Cohen came to the Chronicle from its sister newspaper, the Times Union in Albany, New York. The Times Union won more than 100 writing and graphics awards under Cohen's direction. In 1998, 1999 and 2001, the Times Union was named the best daily newspaper in its circulation class in New York by the Associated Press. In 1999, the Newspaper Association of America named timesunion.com the best medium-sized North American newspaper Web site. The Web site also has won a prestigious Online Journalism Award from Columbia University for its coverage of the trial of four New York City police officers accused of murdering Amadou Diallo. Cohen was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but moved to Houston as a young child. After receiving his journalism degree at The University of Texas, Cohen joined The Hearst Corporation's San Antonio Light in 1976. As a sports writer at the Light he covered the National Basketball Association and as a feature writer he won many writing awards, including one for best story in Texas for an investigative series on cockfighting. Cohen became the managing editor of the Light in 1989. Cohen also has worked at Hearst's corporate headquarters in New York, where he was a special projects editor for new media. Cohen was a fellow in the Multicultural Management Program at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and was elected class president. He was a fellow at the Newspaper Management Center at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He served as a Pulitzer juror in 1999 and 2000.
He wasn't the author of the memo by the way, he was the recipient.