Dan Cooper
Brooklyn, Ny
Mr. Cooper has an extraordinary range of experience in the television and film industries. He co-created the Fox News Channel and played a central role in the creation of "20/20". He has produced hundreds of hours of live television, and worked directly with Rupert Murdoch and extensively with the legendary president of ABC News and Sports Roone Arledge. Mr. Cooper is a three time Emmy winner.
Mr. Cooper in 2009 founded and chairs 4 LLC, to innovate in media technology and content.
While still in his early 20's, Mr. Cooper directed the first music videos produced by Warner Bros. records and produced TV news' first coverage of pop music and the counter-culture. At 30, he created the now-ubiquitous TV news concept "team coverage".
In the early 1970's, Dan produced the style-setting WCBS-TV 11PM "Channel 2 News From The Newsroom", the first daily newscast to originate from a working newsroom. At WCBS-TV Dan also produced the first TV news coverage of the counter-culture, including producing the first profiles of pop stars ever to air on a TV news broadcast.
Dan produced and directed the first music videos made for Warner Bros. Records, including videos for Rod Stewart, Seals and Crofts and the cult favorite Little Feat (with Lowell George).
Dan joined WABC-TV's Eyewitness News as Assistant News Director. Dan oversaw all day-to-day news coverage and provided ongoing creative supervision of all news programs and production design. Dan received an Emmy for Outstanding News Coverage for mounting TV's first newscast anchored live from the location of a breaking story. It was at WABC-TV that Dan created the "team coverage" concept -- assigning a group of reporters to cover various aspects of a single story -- an innovation that has become a staple of broadcast journalism. During this period, including the fear-filled "Son of Sam" summer, Eyewitness News achieved 40-plus rating shares -- still the highest in New York TV history.
Dan served at ABC News as Program Producer of "20/20". For several years, Dan supervised weekly program production, providing editorial direction and directorial supervision.
In 1996, Dan was placed on the Fox News Channel launch team. Dan's contributions and innovations were numerous.
In 1999, Dan co-created FashionFinds.com, a pioneering online fashion magazine. Dan served as site designer and builder, writer, graphic designer, photographer and more.