Associate Professor of Professional Practice at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Director of Annenberg Digital News; contributing editor to The Nation and blogger at MarcCooper.com; former editorial director of Huffington Post's citizen reporting project, Off the Bus; translator to then-Chilean President Salvador Allende, who was overthrown and died in the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power; author of Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir
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