[4] Cole's career in radio began in 1997 with an internship at the Boston NPR affiliate WBUR.
[2] He went on to work there for nine years as a news-writer, engineer, announcer, field-producer, reporter and, finally, a correspondent for the documentary series Inside Out.
Cole has also contributed to the NPR programs All Things Considered, Only a Game,[8] and the podcast 99% Invisible among other shows.
[16] His poem "To Acropolis" was included in a collection of art and writing to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
In a review, Audrey Mardavich called Cole "a superb thinker: he can be irreverent when it matters most, he is inventive with his images and sounds, he is very funny".