Mitch Cooper, Patch Staff

Email- Mitch.Cooper@patch.com                                                   

Phone- (330)-212-2241

Hometown- Suffield, Ohio

Birthday- November 8

Patch is my first crack at professional journalism. 

I graduated from Kent State University in 2010 with a degree in broadcast journalism. During that time I had two great internships with local media, spending nearly six months writing and reporting online and over the air for WAKR and AkronNewsNow.com in Akron.  After that, I worked on the web with WKSU in Kent.  

I am proud to say I was a finalist in the 2010 William Randolph Hearst Awards for Television News. If you don't know news, that's a pretty high accomplishment.

Away from the web, I love spending time with my family, friends and beautiful wife Shannon.

A life long NE Ohio boy, I love (and sometimes hate) watching the Browns and the Buckeyes, occasionally screaming at the television! I love meeting new people and have been incredibly blessed to get to know the cities of Twinsburg and Solon and their people.

I strive to live for Christ, loving and serving others as he did.

As far as politics, I am not a huge fan of the system. However, I would say that I'm liberally conservative.

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