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Author: Lenny Cohen

I’m a veteran news producer with teaching experience working on a national news website. I craft hard news and features for TheNationalDesk.com, bringing story ideas and checking every source for my articles. I also copyedit stories published by Sinclair’s local stations and begin the next day’s emailed newsletter. Before my promotion, at WPEC in Florida, I wrote the stories others avoided because they were complicated and controversial. Every day, I dove into legal paperwork and arrest reports to find what was happening below the surface, breaking news regularly. Plus, I studied Ron DeSantis for more than a year, watching his news conferences, constantly clipping and tweeting soundbites as he spoke. My familiarity with the governor has become even more valuable now that he’s running for president. I started my career in 1994, becoming an award-winning and respected TV newscast producer. WSVN-Miami/Fort Lauderdale * WFSB-Connecticut * WCAU-Philadelphia * KYW-TV Philadelphia Even better was creatively producing websites and social media, and serving as a station’s digital media manager — writing news, creating graphics and getting evidence of growing my audience here in the nation’s fourth-largest market, Philadelphia. WCYB-Tri Cities, TN/VA * WTXF-Philadelphia * Philadelphia Gay News * WPEC-West Palm Beach, FL The journalism “business” has changed — from standards to platforms to layoffs — along with the American public, and I’ve managed to survive somewhat on my own terms. In the meantime, I taught first grade for eight years. My principal saw my class website and made me electronic gradebook manager to assist co-workers when we stopped using paper gradebooks. With classroom and newsroom experience, I know how to prioritize, analyze and take the best course of action. Getting results means attention to detail, following through and following up.
It’s like all Jewish museums are the same!
August 26, 2025

It’s like all Jewish museums are the same!

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History was vandalized, but WCAU reported the story with video calling the place a Holocaust museum.

Will the news media be attacked for not showing Trump's military parade?
June 12, 2025

‘Very big force’: Will the news media be attacked for not showing Trump’s military parade?

The question is absolutely appropriate. Here are the reasons.

The news has moved!
June 11, 2025

The news has moved!

Regular readers looking for news from Florida and not finding it here at CohenConnect.com should not be disappointed.

Remembering Mom
June 1, 2025

Remembering Mom

I feel so lost in a way I never felt before. If there was anyone central to the family, my mom was it.

Would you pay for local news on Netflix?
May 25, 2025

Would you pay for local news on Netflix?

That’s the question I saw on LinkedIn. Sounds like a win-win. Can you come up with a successful business model?

Deep thoughts: The value of journalistic integrity; South Africa and genocide; politicizing anti-Semitic murder
May 22, 2025

Deep thoughts: The value of journalistic integrity; South Africa and genocide; politicizing anti-Semitic murder

This is what I want to know about value of journalistic integrity; South Africa and genocide; and politicizing anti-Semitic murder.

The day I saw Queen Elizabeth
May 20, 2025

The day I saw Queen Elizabeth

This future journalist was interning in the newsroom at WFLA-TV during the summer semester of 1991. Queen Elizabeth II was about to visit and it was an exciting time.

O.J. Simpson may have made my career
April 11, 2024

O.J. Simpson may have made my career

I woke up to the news about O.J. Simpson dying and can’t believe I never wrote about him here. He may have made my career.

Remembering Dad
February 23, 2023

Remembering Dad

I’ve been lucky. It sure doesn’t feel that way now, but this is something other people had to do well before they were my age. Like my father did.

August 26, 2022

Lenny Cohen’s bio on cbs12.com

Lenny Cohen arrived at CBS12 News as dayside digital content producer in 2021, writing news as it happens for cbs12.com and then going beyond the headlines to show why people need to read those articles on social media platforms.

November 5, 2020

Hey Trump! Call it quits or history will judge you even more harshly

Two days have passed since the election for President of the United States. We knew this election was not going to be like any other.

February 9, 2020

Your local reporter may be phoning it in

Have you seen Katie from Kansas on your local CBS TV station’s website? You probably shouldn’t.

February 5, 2020

Iowa Democrats’ disaster just a symptom of primary problems

The Democratic caucus in Iowa took place two days ago and we should’ve received the results about 30 hours ago, and that’s giving the counters a bit of a break. The important number in a primary is the number of delegates each candidate will get.

December 27, 2019

Have you noticed Comcast’s Christmas gift to itself?

It’s that time of year again. No. I take that back. A few weeks ago, it was that time of year again. Regular and long-time CohenConnect readers may recognize the Comcast graphic with Santa Claus.

WKRP Turkey Drop
November 28, 2019

To Thanksgiving, and the best TV episode ever dedicated to it

This year, I reposted a Facebook memory from all the way back in 2018. It contrasts my good feelings about the holiday growing up in Florida, through last year, which was much colder than this one.

August 15, 2019

ThePhillyFiles’ six-week milestone!

I sent the following to subscribers of ThePhillyFiles on Mailchimp: It’s hard for me to believe but today marks *six weeks* since the kickoff of ThePhillyFiles.com! Of course, it’s not like there was nothing on July 3, and everything suddenly appeared on July 4.

August 9, 2019

The war on guns, from Philadelphia to the feds

It’s almost a week since gunmen killed 31 people in mass shootings, 13 hours apart, and nothing concrete has been done to reduce the risk of gun violence in the U.S.

July 8, 2019

Video: First fiery justice, then the law

HATE-MONGER ARSONIST: Tristan Morgan. A man the BBC calls a “far-right extremist … who set fire to a synagogue,” a year ago, first went down in flames and now the justice system.

May 29, 2019

Would you want Mueller’s words about Trump said about you?

Wednesday, special counsel Robert Mueller spoke out for the first time, saying he was resigning and closing down the special counsel’s office.

January 22, 2019

Martin Luther King Day, a victim of the (official) Women’s March

It’s just a coincidence that Martin Luther King Day, which commemorates the birthday of the slain civil rights leader, happens to fall near Inauguration Day in certain years, and thus the Women’s March.

December 12, 2018

Exposing hate, close to home (as if acceptable anywhere)

My interest started when I was looking at my Facebook feed over the weekend and saw a post from a former coworker.

December 6, 2018

Blogging better in 2019 after hitting 20,000 views in 2018

THANK YOU! I don’t know what else to say. There’s nothing special about hitting 20,000 blog page views except that it’s a big round number. The blog is a hobby and will be four years old next month.

map Philadelphia
November 28, 2018

Level-headed moderation needed now in The Birthplace of America

Philadelphia is a great place to live. It has so much, so close-by: history, museums, sports. It’s walkable, livable, has green space. Too bad it has people in charge who don’t care about serving the public.

November 21, 2018

The end of an era, and beginning of this one (Part A of this one)

It was 20 years ago tonight. Not exactly. It was actually four days off, on Nov. 25, but what really matters is it was the night before Thanksgiving in 1998.

October 28, 2018

Not a good day for political thoughts, the USA as a whole

After this morning’s attack in a Pittsburgh neighborhood where I have family and have been to several times, I did some reading and a lot of soul-searching before starting to write.

October 10, 2018

The case against us all paying for private schools

Several times a year, before elections, a man in Florida emails me about who to support in elections down there. The goal is to receive money (Isn’t that everyone’s?) for private schools.

September 26, 2018

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Sometimes I see or hear something so stupid, I lose control and have to call it out right away. That’s especially true when it comes from somebody who makes herself seem like some sort of expert on a topic. Unfortunately, this is one of those times.

September 14, 2018

Eric Trump and his shekels

I’m putting this post out there because of a discussion on my Facebook page over Eric Trump’s shekels comment and the Washington Post article near the top of it. I expected some support. Any support.

August 27, 2018

Not the typical pet, not the typical vet appointment

What a morning, and I hadn’t even gotten to the vet’s office! It was time for Frisky’s first annual physical. That’s not counting the office visit she had a year ago, after I adopted her from Morris Animal Refuge on Clear the Shelters Day. Frisky has always been a tough one.

From Philly? How your neighborhood (or one nearby) got its name
July 8, 2018

From Philly? How your neighborhood (or one nearby) got its name

Philadelphia may be one of the biggest cities in the country and arguably the most historic, considering it is the birthplace of our country….

June 16, 2018

Making your Father’s Day happier, no matter your situation

Father’s Day is upon us again and I wanted to get this post out before the holiday because I just read a lot of…

June 7, 2018

Grave situation for hours outside Detroit

I don’t go on many vacations and didn’t plan to write a blog on this one, but the most unusual thing happened while trying to visit my grandfather’s grave at the cemetery in Royal Oak, Michigan.

June 2, 2018

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

Who would’ve thought of me as some type of music expert? Definitely not anybody who knows me! I’ve been planning this blog for a…

A Higher Loyalty
April 17, 2018

Comey comes alive with tough talk against Trump

I didn’t know much about James Comey until about two years ago. Since then, I thought pretty highly of the guy and that really hasn’t changed.

March 29, 2018

Who Trump hates more, Facebook or Amazon? Oh, and Stormy Daniels’ motion to make him speak!

Lawmakers and many Americans are angry about Facebook and how it handled 50 million users’ people’s data, but President Trump really hates Amazon.

February 18, 2018

Famous man, 80, suing famous man, 77, for age discrimination

What’s famous to you obviously relies on where you’ve been and what you’ve noticed, but these people have had national exposure for at least…

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