Bob Cohn (born April 18, 1963) is an American journalist and media executive who became CEO of The Baltimore Banner[1] in February 2024.

[3] At The Baltimore Banner, a Maryland news site launched in 2022, Cohn sets and executes strategy for the business and editorial groups.

At The Economist, Cohn was responsible for all aspects of the business in digital, print and audio, with a focus on consumer and corporate subscriptions and new commercial initiatives in education, podcasting and customer engagement.

He was named to the job in 2014 after five years as editor of Atlantic Digital, where he built and managed teams at TheAtlantic.com, The Wire, and CityLab, and grew the audience ten-fold.

At Stanford, his team won the Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for best university publication in the country.

[20] In 1992 he won, with his colleague David Kaplan, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for coverage of the Supreme Court nomination process.