Funnyman Cooper Leaps Back into Journalism

It was only a matter of time until Cooper, who left journalism in late 2009 for a brief foray into a senior advisory position for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, would return. In December 2009 he had been working for The Atlantic and Talking Points Memo. At the time, he described it as a “short break.”

Now he’ll be NJ‘s Managing Editor, where, says Editor-in-Chief Ron Fournier, he’ll lead a “major beat team to be determined.”

As mentioned in Politico‘s Playbook by Mike Allen this morning, Fournier suggested in his internal memo that Cooper’s new coworkers ask him to do his Bill Clinton imitation (Cooper was named Washington’s funniest comedian back in 1998.)

But