Marc Cooper - Journalism

Journalism

In the spring 2006, Cooper was appointed a full time member of the journalism faculty at the USC Annenberg School for Communication for the academic year 2006-2007. He had taught the previous five years as an adjunct. He was also promoted to the post of Associate Director at Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism. In late 2008, Cooper was also named Director of Annenberg Digital News and its online publication Neon Tommy.

In 2010 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Professional Practice.

He also coordinates the USC Annenberg News21 fellowship which is part of a national Carnegie-Knight initiative for developing innovative journalism. His journalism prizes include awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Armstrong Memorial Foundation, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the California Associated Press TV and Radio Association, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Best in the West, Project Censored, PEN American Center, and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club.

He began his own daily blog in 2004. Since May 2005 he's also been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. During the 2008 campaign he served as a Senior Editor of the site and also worked as editorial director of its OffTheBus citizen journalism reporting project. The same year he joined the advisory board of Pajamas Media, a weblog-related company. As of July, 2007, Cooper is no longer affilitated with Pajamas Media. He left The Huffington Post in December 2008.

He is married to Chilean writer and teacher Patricia Vargas-Cooper and has one adult daughter, Natasha Vargas-Cooper who studied at UCLA. She graduated in May 2007 and is now a writer and journalist. Her book, "Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through America of the 60's" was published by Harper Collins in 2010.