Todd Cohen

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Todd is a veteran news reporter and editor who has been reporting on the nonprofit world since 1991.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the New England School of Law in Boston, Todd worked for weekly and daily newspapers in Massachusetts and North Carolina before joining The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., in 1981.

At The N&O, he reported on government, politics, education and regulated industries, and served as business editor.

In 1991, as business editor, he started writing a weekly philanthropy column, and two years later created the Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina, a publication of The News and Observer Foundation that was the first statewide newspaper in the U.S. to report on the charitable world.

In 1999, he joined the A.J. Fletcher Foundation to develop the online Philanthropy Journal.

And in January 2010, the Fletcher Foundation made a gift of the Philanthropy Journal to the Institute for Nonprofits at N.C. State University. The Journal now is a program of the Institute.

Todd, who was editor of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at UNC-Chapel Hill, has taught nonprofit reporting and media relations there and at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and regularly speaks at workshops, seminars, meetings and conferences on the topics of nonprofit communications and trends in the charitable world.

To see Todd's interview on "North Carolina People with William Friday" that aired June 11, 2010, on UNC-TV, click here.

To read an interview with Todd on trends in the nonprofit world, published in The News & Observer on July 10,  2011, click here.

To read the opinion column Todd wrote about reporting on nonprofits and philanthropy for 20 years, published in The News and Observer on June 17, 2011, click here.