Chris O’Coin is a Brooklyn-based documentary editor and producer with more than a decade of work across PBS Frontline, American Experience, HBO, Showtime, Hulu, Paramount+, Vice, and ESPN

His long creative partnership with Frontline director James Jacoby and producer Anya Bourg has produced an unbroken string of major works at the intersection of power, money, and American democracy. Their first film together, Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos, won an Emmy Award and became the most streamed documentary in Frontline history. What followed reads like a chronicle of the defining forces of the era: The Power of the Fed, Age of Easy Money, Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover, Netanyahu, America and the Road to War in Gaza, Crisis on Campus, Remaking The Middle East: Israel vs. Iran, and The President Vs. The Fed.

Beyond the Jacoby/Bourg collaboration, his Frontline work spans some of the most urgent reporting of the current moment. As Co-Producer and Editor on the 2026 film Caught in the Crackdown, a joint investigation with ProPublica documenting the Trump administration's immigration sweeps and the American citizens caught in their wake, he helped bring one of the most volatile stories in recent memory to the screen. Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes, a 2022 joint investigation with The Associated Press tracing Russian atrocities in Bucha, earned the RFK Human Rights Grand Prize, the IRE Tom Renner Medal, and two Overseas Press Club Awards. Additional Frontline credits include The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram, which earned a Peabody Award and an Emmy nomination, and The Rise of Germany's New Right, which received an Emmy nomination.

He also edited Part One of Kissinger for PBS's American Experience, a two-part, three-hour biography that premiered in October 2025 and that the New York Times praised for its "crispness and professionalism."

Operating at the intersection of editing and producing, he brings a researcher's rigor and a writer's instinct to every film he works on, shaping not just the cut but the story itself. He has served as Co-Producer on multiple Frontline productions.

Earlier in his career, he helped build Vice Media's digital presence from the ground up, editing for Vice's hugely popular YouTube channel in its early days and serving as Supervising Producer for Motherboard, Vice's influential technology vertical, earning Webby Awards along the way. He went on to edit across multiple series for Viceland, including Weediquette, Noisey, Slutever, and My House, the latter winning the MIPCOM Diversity TV Excellence Award and earning a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary. He also contributed to the Emmy-winning Vice on HBO and Vice on Showtime. As Editor, Supervising Producer, and Writer on the Viceland limited series Terror, the show earned a Canadian Screen Award.

For MTV Documentary Films, he edited American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself, directed by Alexandra Pelosi, executive produced by legendary HBO documentary chief Sheila Nevins, and premiering on Showtime in the days before the 2020 presidential election. RogerEbert.com singled him out by name, writing that "Pelosi and editor Christopher O'Coin do a superb job" of capturing a divided America.

When he's not holed up in an edit room obsessing about story flow, pacing, and accuracy, Chris can be found exploring New York City by bike, from Rockaway to the George Washington Bridge and everywhere in between, making music, digging through record bins, or on a snowboard, which is the only thing that makes winter tolerable.