Michael is a graduate of Ramapo College of New Jersey with an honors degree in political science. Sports reporter for the Ramapo News from the day he arrived at RCNJ in September of 2004, he moved up to Managing Sports Editor in the fall of 2006 and served in that position until his graduation in 2008. While at school, The Montclair Press published two of his NFL season prediction books: NFL Outlook 2005 and 2006.

Cohen is also author of his own sports blog: Cohen's Corner Sports that grew from his weekly NFL column in the Ramapo News. People may log onto his blog at http://cohenscornersports.blogspot.com. Michael can also be found from time to time on YouTube via http://www.youtube.com/user/mcohen07834 which will be going digital in summer 2010.

From 2008-2009, Michael began his professional assignments as a freelance writer for The County Seat based in Hackensack, New Jersey, where he covered Bergen County events both political and social as well as sporting news. He still contributes regularly to the bi-weekly publication.

Michael added freelance writing duties at the Secaucus Weekly and the Kearny Weekly, subsidiaries of the daily Jersey Journal newspaper in November of 2009. In 2010, Michael became a full time sports, feature writer and news reporter for The Jersey Journal based in Jersey City serving the North Hudson County region. You can log into Michael's Jersey Journal page at the following URL: http://connect.nj.com/user/mcohen07834/index.html

Most recently Michael has now picked up work for the Mahwah Patch in Mahwah, New Jersey, writing stories on local developments in the town.

He is also heavily pursuing moving toward a career in radio broadcasting.