Nancy Cooper was named director of special projects for Newsweek.com in September 2007. In that position, her duties are top-editing stories for the Web and working to develop new relationships and franchises for the Web site.

Previously, she was Senior Editor of the Front of the Book section since November 1998. Cooper was responsible for the redesign of some of Newsweek's most popular and provocative features: the cartoons and quotes in Perspectives and the brief exclusives and irreverent quips in Periscope, including the Conventional Wisdom Watch.  Each week  she also selected the essay written by a Newsweek reader to become that week's My Turn column.

Before that, Cooper served as Newsweek's first Millennium editor between January 1997 and November 1998.  Millennium was both a weekly column and a series of special issues looking ahead to the year 2000 and beyond, and reassessing the people and events of the past century.  The Millennium series debuted with the Jan. 27, 1996, special issue, "Beyond 2000: America in the 21st Century." The weekly Millennium section, entitled 2000, also debuted in the Jan. 27 issue.  The series examined everything from medicine, science and technology to family life, work and play.

Before that, Cooper had been senior editor of Newsweek's International section  since May 1992, directing coverage of world events and U.S. foreign policy. Under Cooper's leadership, Newsweek earned an Overseas Press Club Award in 1997 for best magazine reporting from abroad for the cover story "China: Friend or Foe?" (April 1, 1996).  Cooper has edited other cover stories such as "Red Alert," (June 17, 1996), "Hiroshima: Why We Did It," (July 24, 1995) and "Hell on Earth: Racing Against Death in Rwanda," (Aug. 1, 1994). She also edited Newsweek's award-winning coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Prior to taking over the International section, Cooper had served as deputy National Affairs editor since March 1989, playing a key role in the magazine's award-winning coverage of the Persian Gulf War and the 1992 presidential campaign. Previously, she was a senior writer in Newsweek's International section. Cooper joined Newsweek in April 1981 as a Letters correspondent, moving to the National Affairs section as a researcher in 1983.  She was named general editor in 1987 and senior writer in January 1989.

Cooper is a graduate of Harvard College. She and her husband and daughters live in Manhattan.