Cooper has also worked as a speechwriter, communications planner, media relations officer, correspondence manager, and publications editor.
Cooper has written articles for different publications, including Maclean's magazine, CMA Management, the Toronto Star, and is a former employee of the Liberal newspaper in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
In 1998, he assisted Stanley G. Grizzle with his autobiography My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada.
The young readers' history book examined the reality of racial intolerance in southern Ontario, as well as the efforts and input of many civil rights activists.
The book uses several real and hypothetical case studies to show college communications students how to handle crisis situations (i.e. with the media, public relations, etc.).