S.L. Cook is an Emmy-award winning news and sports producer who enjoys discovering compelling stories. He has traveled extensively throughout his life to find them.
His career began as a Producer for NBC Nightly News and the Today show, living both in Los Angeles and New York for several years. After being hired away by CNN, he soon became the network’s Managing Editor in Los Angeles, where he oversaw and produced coverage during some of the most turbulent years in the city’s history, including the Rodney King beating, the subsequent trials of the police officers, and the 1992 riots. He also ran point on the massive Northridge earthquake, aswell as the heartbreaking and wide-ranging destruction from several turbulent fires and floods throughout southern California.
After returning to NBC to help coordinate coverage of the OJ Simpson trial, he was named a lead producer for the launch of Fox Sports News. From there followedseveral years as the Executive Producer for Sports at CBS in Los Angeles, the largest local broadcast department in the nation.
Along the way, he published short stories and Op-eds for various papers and sites around the country.
Today, he continues to produce television sports – when he’s not too busy writing, or working the stubborn kinks and aches out of a complaining and aging ex-ballplayer’s body.
His passion remains striving to present and tell stories with an unencumbered voice.
S.L. Cook is currently at work on his next thriller.