Nancy Eve Cohen
Senior ReporterNancy Eve Cohen is a former NEPM senior reporter whose investigative reporting has been recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for Hard News, along with awards for features and spot news from the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA), American Women in Radio & Television and the Society of Professional Journalists.
She has reported on repatriation to Native nations, criminal justice for survivors of child sexual abuse, linguistic and digital barriers to employment, fatal police shootings and efforts to address climate change and protect the environment. She has done extensive reporting on the EPA's Superfund cleanup of the Housatonic River.
Previously, she served as an editor at NPR in Washington D.C., as well as the managing editor of the Northeast Environmental Hub, a collaboration of public radio stations in New York and New England.
Before working in radio, she produced environmental public television documentaries. As part of a camera crew, she also recorded sound for network television news with assignments in Russia, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba and in Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia.
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Massachusetts state troopers, Berkshire County local police and other law enforcement officers arrested ten people on Friday as part of an effort to stop a large drug trafficking operation in Adams, North Adams and Pittsfield. Police seized about $200,000 worth of narcotics, along with $60,000 in cash and 20 guns, including large-capacity assault rifles. -
The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Massachusetts, is celebrating what would have been the suffragette's 205th birthday this month. Anthony, who devoted her life to fighting for a woman's right to vote, was born on February 15, 1820. -
Bishop Bryant Robinson, who supported his congregation when arsonists set fire to the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in 2008, hours after Barack Obama was elected president, has died. -
What survivors, advocates know about Mass. AG's inquiry into child sexual abuse at Catholic diocesesAlthough the results of the Massachusetts attorney general's inquiry into child sexual abuse at the Fall River, Springfield and Worcester dioceses have not been made public, an investigator told a survivor the AG's office focused on the church's response to allegations, rather than naming individual perpetrators. -
Investigations into Catholic dioceses changed laws in other states — and Mass. victims want the sameThe results of a Massachusetts attorney general's investigation into child sexual abuse at the Fall River, Springfield and Worcester dioceses have never been made public. The AG's office said it needs court approval to release the report. In other states, investigations like this have led to changes in the law and validation for survivors. -
Tenants at the Pleasant View Apartments in Easthampton, Massachusetts, had their rent increase by nearly 35% after the building sold for $4 million. -
Although there are no human cases of avian flu in Massachusetts, officials this week advised poultry farmers and people with backyard flocks to keep their birds inside. They suggested people and their pets avoid contact with wildlife, including dead birds — and cats should be kept inside. -
In the aftermath of Trump's executive order to end a legal pathway for entering the U.S., immigration advocates in western Massachusetts are assessing the impact on people in the region. -
Revolutionary War memorial for Native, settler regiments discussed at Stockbridge Mohican commissionThe town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, has launched a commission with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. Tribal leaders helped establish the original township in 1737. -
At a meeting in Pittsfield, Massachusetts this week General Electric presented its revised plan for transporting toxic waste during the clean up of the Housatonic River. The public criticized its first plan for not analyzing the use of rail over trucks.
