Reporters
Mark Coogan
Mark Coogan joined the CBS2 News team in spring 2000 after an extensive reporting career at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. He currently is a reporter with CBS 2.
Throughout his career with KABC, Coogan specialized in the coverage of politics, government and public policy. In 1999, he covered President Clinton's impeachment trial, the corruption scandal of the Los Angeles Police Department and the turmoil in L.A.'s school district.
Earlier in the 1990s, Coogan covered the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the O.J. Simpson case, the 1992 L.A. riots and political conventions and elections.
Before joining KABC in 1981, Coogan was the Southern Africa bureau chief of ABC News in Johannesburg, South
Africa. He covered the apartheid in South Africa, civil war, independence in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and the Gulf War between Iraq and Iran.
From 1976 to 1979, Coogan joined KABC for the first time, primarily covering the desegregation of Los Angeles schools and other assignments.
Actually, for the past 30 years, Coogan has been somewhere on either the television or radio dial here in Los Angeles.
His first job was in 1968 with KFI Radio. During his tenure there, he covered the Charles Manson murder trial, the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, the Pentagon Papers trial, Nixon's impeachment trial and Patty Hearst's kidnapping and the subsequent SLA shootout. He left KFI in 1976.
Coogan was named as 1999's Broadcast Journalist of the Year by the L.A. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. In 1991, he was awarded an Emmy for best spot news. In the two years before that, he was awarded Golden Mikes for best live coverage and best news series. Coogan is no stranger to the Golden Mike; he received his first in 1986, again for best live coverage.
A graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara, with a bachelor of arts degree in political science, Coogan and his wife just completed their family with the adoption of a healthy baby girl.
In his free time, Coogan enjoys traveling, bicycling, photography, reading, football and baseball.
