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Rachel Cohen
Environment and Outdoors Reporter
Boise State Public Radio
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Professional Bio
Rachel Cohen is a radio reporter covering the environment at Boise State Public Radio, Idaho’s NPR station. Her stories have focused on a wide range of subjects, including wildlife, renewable energy development, agriculture, climate change and public health.
She spent the past year as a Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellow (SHERF) through SEJ, AHCJ and CASW, and her work has been supported by a grant from the Institute for Journalists and Natural Resources.
Cohen’s stories have frequently aired on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” WBUR’s “Here and Now,” American Public Media’s “Marketplace,” and public radio stations around the West through the Mountain West News Bureau.
She’s won a National Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting and three regional Murrow awards for breaking news, investigative reporting and sports reporting.
Previously, she produced interviews at New Hampshire Public Radio and wrote articles about food and health as an intern on NPR’s Science Desk in D.C. She got her start as a journalist at a small paper in Vermont.
She spent the past year as a Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellow (SHERF) through SEJ, AHCJ and CASW, and her work has been supported by a grant from the Institute for Journalists and Natural Resources.
Cohen’s stories have frequently aired on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” WBUR’s “Here and Now,” American Public Media’s “Marketplace,” and public radio stations around the West through the Mountain West News Bureau.
She’s won a National Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting and three regional Murrow awards for breaking news, investigative reporting and sports reporting.
Previously, she produced interviews at New Hampshire Public Radio and wrote articles about food and health as an intern on NPR’s Science Desk in D.C. She got her start as a journalist at a small paper in Vermont.
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Boise State Public Radio
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Reporter