Joseph Cooke

Vice President of Print

I’ve been a senior photographer for the Villages Daily Sun since March 2024. I came here after a stint with the Buffalo News as a photography fellow. I started in the industry as a writer/reporter and got my bachelor’s of science in journalism (news & information) from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. I later transitioned into visual storytelling and got my master’s of arts in photojournalism from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication.
I have experience with organizations like the Arizona Republic, St. Louis Post Dispatch, the McClatchy DC Bureau, ABC 6/FOX 28 (WSYX/WTTE) and Louisville Courier Journal. I’ve covered the Kentucky Derby, Buffalo Bills regular season and playoff games, the Phoenix Suns run to the 2021 NBA Finals, record-high temperatures, the 2022 Buffalo blizzard/extreme winter weather and Capitol Hill, the 2019 Dayton shooting and Washington D.C. politics.