Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, journalism professor and . He is a
contributing editor to
The Nation. He wrote the popular "Dissonance" column for
LA Weekly from 2001 until November 2008. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the
Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, the Christian Science Monitor, Playboy and
Rolling Stone. His translated work has been published in various European and Latin American publications including the French daily Liberation and the Mexico City-based dailies La Jornada and Uno Mas Uno. He has also been a television producer for
PBS,
CBS News, and the
Christian Science Monitor. His radio reports have aired on
NBC,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the
BBC. During the 2008 presidential campaign he worked as editorial coordinator of the Huffington Post's citizen-journalism project OffTheBus as well as a Senior Editor of the overall site.