Robert Cocuzzo

27 Epping Street Arlington
Website: www.RobCocuzzo.com
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Professional Experience

An editor, writer and publisher author, Robert Cocuzzo has written cover stories profiling everyone from Academy Award winning director Ron Howard, Super Bowl champion Julian Edelman, bestselling author Sebastian Junger, and actor Ben Stiller. As an adventure travel writer, Cocuzzo has written about swimming with sharks, diving for deadly sea urchins, and skiing no-fall zones in the French Alps. Cocuzzo's latest project was documenting the life of world renowned skier, Doug Coombs, in a book published by Mountaineers Books entitled 'Tracking the Wild Coomba.'

Expertise

Editor
6 Years
Writer
10 Years
Book Author
3 Years

Specialty

Lifestyle
6 Years
Travel
5 Years
Sports & Recreation
5 Years

Industries


Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
6 Years
Book publishing - all
3 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
2 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

7 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Nantucket Magazine (10+), Boston Common Magazine (10+), Departures (1-2)

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General

For the tenth anniversary issue of Boston Common magazine, I wrote a ~2,600-word cover story profiling Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman. Excerpt: Everything you need to know about Patriots star receiver Julian Edelman can be summed up in ten seconds. It’s 3rd and 14 and the Patriots are down by ten with eleven minutes to play in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLIV. “We need a championship drive,” Tom Brady tells his huddle. The quarterback takes the snap and Edelman breaks off the line. He jukes the pants off of Seahawks corner Tharold Simon, and then sprints across the middle of the field. Brady steps up in the pocket and targets Edelman with a bullet. The 5-foot-10-inch, 198-pound receiver makes the catch but then is instantly demolished by Seahawks strong safety Kam Chancellor. The hit echoes out over television sets across the country like a clap of thunder. Chancellor has five inches, thirty pounds, and truckload of momentum on Edelman, but miraculously the undersized receiver not only hangs