{"id":19694,"date":"2025-01-09T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19694"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:23:46","slug":"richard-m-cohen-news-producer-who-wrote-of-a-health-challenge-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19694","title":{"rendered":"Richard M. Cohen, News Producer Who Wrote of a Health Challenge, Dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.<\/p>\n

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Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in a best-selling memoir, died on Dec. 24 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a village in Westchester County. He was 76.<\/p>\n

His wife, the former \u201cToday\u201d show host Meredith Vieira, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by acute respiratory failure.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cohen spent more than 20 years in the news business, working with luminaries like Ted Koppel at ABC and Walter Cronkite<\/a> and Dan Rather at CBS. But he tackled a different subject when he wrote a memoir \u2014 and articles for HuffPost, The New York Times and other outlets \u2014 about dealing with M.S., a degenerative disease of the central nervous system.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cohen was diagnosed with M.S. in 1973, when he was 25 and helping to create a documentary for PBS about the politics of disability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite diminishing eyesight, which turned into legal blindness, and worsening balance, which caused falls that made him appear inebriated to the uninformed, he worked into the mid-1990s as a producer for CBS News, CNN, PBS (again) and FX.<\/p>\n

\u201cRichard was a man of vibrant good humor and sparkling intelligence,\u201d Mr. Koppel wrote in an email. \u201cI am sure that his many illnesses caused him more than the occasional bout of despair, but he never shared that with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in a best-selling memoir, died on Dec. 24 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a village in Westchester County. He was 76.His wife, the former \u201cToday\u201d show host Meredith Vieira, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by acute respiratory failure.Mr. Cohen spent more than 20 years in the news business, working with luminaries like Ted Koppel at ABC and Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather at CBS. But he tackled a different subject when he wrote a memoir \u2014 and articles for HuffPost, The New York Times and other outlets \u2014 about dealing with M.S., a degenerative disease of the central nervous system.Mr. Cohen was diagnosed with M.S. in 1973, when he was 25 and helping to create a documentary for PBS about the politics of disability.Despite diminishing eyesight, which turned into legal blindness, and worsening balance, which caused falls that made him appear inebriated to the uninformed, he worked into the mid-1990s as a producer for CBS News, CNN, PBS (again) and FX.\u201cRichard was a man of vibrant good humor and sparkling intelligence,\u201d Mr. Koppel wrote in an email. \u201cI am sure that his many illnesses caused him more than the occasional bout of despair, but he never shared that with me.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19696,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19697,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions\/19697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}