David Cohen

Investigations & Campaigns Editor

ABOUT

David Cohen is the Investigations Editor and Campaigns Editor at The Standard, as well as the founder of the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund. He is the winner of multiple press awards, including the Paul Foot Award for investigative campaigning journalism and the Cudlipp Award for campaign of the year. ... MORE

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David Cohen is the Investigations Editor and Campaigns Editor at The Standard, as well as the founder of the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund. He is the winner of multiple press awards, including the Paul Foot Award for investigative campaigning journalism and the Cudlipp Award for campaign of the year.

<p>Thomas Griffiths, circled on CCTV footage at the bus stop after knifing Ellie, manifested a desperation to impress </p>
Crime

The missed red flags before boyfriend stabbed Ellie, 17, to death

Revealed: Chilling story of teenage jealousy spiralling out of control

4 Jun 2024
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London

‘This helped me realise how I should approach a girl, not be dominant’

Standard observes workshop to prevent sexist abuse in schools as we launch new Show Respect campaign to tackle violence against girls

3 Jun 2024
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London

Standard launches campaign to tackle sexist abuse in schools

Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund will kickstart workshops to educate 13 and 14-year-old inner city pupils about healthy relationships

3 Jun 2024
<p>Telling it how it is: Jenni Steele carries out one of her sessions on healthy relationships with a group of boys</p>
London

Boys, porn and the alarming way they talk about girls

As violence against women and girls spirals, we uncover the shocking reality of misogyny and harassment in schools. Investigations Editor David Cohen reports

29 May 2024
<p>The misogynist hand sign linked to influencer Andrew Tate</p>
London

Schoolgirls tell how they are victims of sexual harassment every day

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: The macho classroom culture created by male pupils can have a devastating effect on teenage girls

29 May 2024
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London

Our call for new pupil exclusion category that covers sexist abuse

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How many exclusions from school are for sexist abuse? We haven’t a clue because the Department of education doesn’t measure it

29 May 2024
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UK

Evening Standard's £2.45m winter appeal tops Fleet Street fundraisers

The Evening Standard's Winter Survival Appeal in partnership with Comic Relief raised more money than any other newspaper appeal in 2023

24 May 2024
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Sustainable Travel

Wild Camping in Botswana’s Central Kalahari

Into the Wild: Independent safari explorers plot up at dirt-cheap campsites by night, and have the reserve — and the wildlife — to themselves by day, in Southern Africa.

20 May 2024
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Winter Survival Appeal

Winter Survival Appeal: £1m more given out as we help homeless youth

Our Winter Survival Appeal has just awarded one of its final grants to EveryYouth, a charity that supports a network of groups for struggling young people, reports David Cohen

7 Mar 2024
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UK

Victory for Standard campaign against food waste on farms

Action directly follows our campaign last year to end the problem of perfectly good farm produce being wasted

21 Feb 2024
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Winter Survival Appeal

How stars aligned to help Londoners in distress

Campaigns Editor David Cohen chronicles the astonishing progress of our appeal this year — and how its big-name backers weighed in

21 Dec 2023
<p>Rita Ora visited one of the charities boosted by our appeal </p>
Winter Survival Appeal

Thank you, London! Our appeal hits £2.4m as Rita Ora gives backing

Singer-songwriter pays visit to one of the charities benefiting from Standard's Winter Survival Appeal

21 Dec 2023
<p>Model Emma Thynn, the Marchioness of Bath, who visited the Beyond Food Foundation in London Bridge, one of the projects being supported by our campaign</p>
Winter Survival Appeal

Thank you! £130,000 donated from public to our Christmas appeal

Kind donations take our total raised to over £2.3 million in just four weeks

20 Dec 2023
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Winter Survival Appeal

Gordon Brown harnesses might of Amazon to help families fight poverty

We back former PM’s new nationwide Multibank initiative as he hails our appeal. David Cohen reports

19 Dec 2023
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Winter Survival Appeal

Burberry donate £200,000 taking our appeal total to £2.2m

Other donors to our Christmas Campaign so far include Julia and Hans Rausing, Sainsbury’s and Comic Relief, the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund and gaming event organisers Jingle Jam

13 Dec 2023
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Winter Survival Appeal

Our Winter Survival Appeal smashes the £2million barrier

Benedict Cumberbatch and Anne-Marie Duff hail Christmas campaign to help the most vulnerable in the capital

12 Dec 2023
<p>Maria with her daughter, four. She also has a son aged eight who struggles to communicate</p>
Winter Survival Appeal

'Markfield gives us strength...it's a second home'

David Cohen meets parents looking after autistic children — as well as trying to balance budgets in a cost of living crisis

11 Dec 2023