The Real Life Network Launches RLN News with Award-Winning Anchor/Reporter Daniel Cohen

CHINO HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 4, 2024--

The Real Life Network today announced the launch of RLN News, delivering breaking current events and commentary from a Biblical worldview. RLN News will officially make its debut by partnering with The Family Research Council on Pray Vote Stand: Decision 2024, live coverage of the election from 8:30 pm-Midnight ET on November 5.

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Leading RLN’s new effort is three-time Emmy-award winning anchor and reporter Daniel Cohen, a Jewish follower of Jesus who will serve as the network’s News Director. Cohen will be based in Tel Aviv and deliver the news while connecting what’s happening in the Middle East and beyond with the Bible.

“God knew in advance our foundation of news would be coming out of the number-one spot on the planet where it matters,” said Pastor Jack Hibbs, Founder and President of the Real Life Network. “Israel is not going to go away, Jerusalem is not going away– and yet we know from the scripture that it’s going to be increasingly the epicenter of global news.”

During the past 20 years, Cohen covered some of the biggest stories in top markets. Most recently, he led Newsmax’s Jerusalem bureau as a correspondent, was a morning co-anchor on Los Angeles' highly rated "Good Day LA" on Fox 11 (KTTV), and also served as a morning anchor at CBS 8 (KFMB) in San Diego.

“This is an historic moment for the church. Israel’s relationship with the United States is critical, and the body of Christ must know and understand what’s going on biblically,” said Cohen. “Everyone watching this network will have a front row seat to what’s happening now and what’s happening in the prophetic.”

Cohen earned Emmy Awards for reporting on the Cedar Fire that devastated San Diego in 2003, the Witch Creek Fire (2007), and an FA-18 fighter jet crash in residential San Diego (2008). Currently, Cohen and his family are living through Israel’s war to destroy Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror threats in the region. He recently traveled to Istanbul to cover the election of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and reported from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia when President Biden visited KSA in 2022.

Cohen traveled to the Moldovan border in the early days of the Russia/Ukraine war as women and children were evacuating from the war zone and has visited Jordan and reported from ancient sites in Italy. How it all relates to Israel will always remain RLN’s focus.

Cohen earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois, with an emphasis in political science and sociology. He currently is studying Hebrew and resides in Israel with his wife, Paige, and their three children.

About the Real Life Network

Founded by Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Pastor Jack Hibbs, the Real Life Network (RLN) is a free 24/7 television streaming platform with a mission to educate, encourage, build, and strengthen the lives of its viewers with a biblical worldview. Sharing Jesus as the hope of the world, everything at RLN is rooted in God’s Word, and its programming can be found on any device through platforms, such as, Apple TV, Apple iOS, Amazon FireTV, ROKU, Chromecast and Google Play.

Award-winning anchor/reporter Daniel Cohen announced as News Director for The Real Life Network, a free 24/7 television streaming platform with a mission to educate, encourage, build, and strengthen the lives of its viewers with a biblical worldview. RLN is rooted in God’s Word, and its programming can be found on any device through platforms, such as, Apple TV, Apple iOS, Amazon FireTV, ROKU, Chromecast and Google Play. (Photo: Business Wire)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Richard “Dick” Codey, a former acting governor of New Jersey and the longest serving legislator in the state's history, died Sunday. He was 79.

Codey’s wife, Mary Jo Codey, confirmed her husband’s death to The Associated Press.

“Gov. Richard J. Codey passed away peacefully this morning at home, surrounded by family, after a brief illness,” Codey's family wrote in a Facebook post on Codey's official page.

"Our family has lost a beloved husband, father and grandfather -- and New Jersey lost a remarkable public servant who touched the lives of all who knew him," the family said.

Known for his feisty, regular-guy persona, Codey was a staunch advocate of mental health awareness and care issues. The Democrat also championed legislation to ban smoking from indoor areas and sought more money for stem cell research.

Codey, the son of a northern New Jersey funeral home owner, entered the state Assembly in 1974 and served there until he was elected to the state Senate in 1982. He served as Senate president from 2002 to 2010.

Codey first served as acting governor for a brief time in 2002, after Christine Todd Whitman’s resignation to join President George W. Bush’s administration. He held the post again for 14 months after Gov. Jim McGreevey resigned in 2004.

At that time, New Jersey law mandated that the Senate president assume the governor’s role if a vacancy occurred, and that person would serve until the next election.

Codey routinely drew strong praise from residents in polls, and he gave serious consideration to seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2005. But he ultimately chose not to run when party leaders opted to back wealthy Wall Street executive Jon Corzine, who went on to win the office.

Codey would again become acting governor after Corzine was incapacitated in April 2007 due to serious injuries he suffered in a car accident. He held the post for nearly a month before Corzine resumed his duties.

After leaving the governor’s office, Codey returned to the Senate and also published a memoir that detailed his decades of public service, along with stories about his personal and family life.

“He lived his life with humility, compassion and a deep sense of responsibility to others,” his family wrote. “He made friends as easily with Presidents as he did with strangers in all-night diners.”

Codey and his wife often spoke candidly about her past struggles with postpartum depression, and that led to controversy in early 2005, when a talk radio host jokingly criticized Mary Jo and her mental health on the air.

Codey, who was at the radio station for something else, confronted the host and said he told him that he wished he could “take him outside.” But the host claimed Codey actually threatened to “take him out,” which Codey denied.

His wife told The Associated Press that Codey was willing to support her speaking out about postpartum depression, even if it cost him elected office.

“He was a really, really good guy,” Mary Jo Codey said. “He said, ‘If you want to do it, I don’t care if I get elected again.’”

Jack Brook contributed reporting from New Orleans.

FILE - New Jersey State Sen. and former Democratic Gov. Richard Codey is seen before New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature at the statehouse, in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)