About Jason

Jason Cochran was awarded Guide Book of the Year by the Lowell Thomas Awards (Society of American Travel Writers) and the North American Travel Journalists Association for Pauline Frommer’s London. He also wrote Pauline Frommer’s Orlando and Walt Disney World and San Francisco. He’s also a regular contributor to CBS’s The Early Show and he created and hosted AfterShark, the post-show for Mark Burnett’s prime-time ABC program Shark Tank, and hosted the Bank of America’s video series Savings Experiment. He is familiar to users of AOL for his celebrity interviews, his series Go for Less, and for a popular run of roving-reporter videos filed from locations ranging from Venice, Los Angeles, the christening of the Queen Elizabeth in the company of HM Elizabeth II, to the World’s Longest Yard Sale in rural Tennessee.

A contributing editor of DealNews.com, he is also a regular writer for the New York Post, Travel + Leisure.com and Concierge.com. He was Executive Editor of AOL Travel and Editor-at-Large for WalletPop.com and has written extensively for for publications including Budget Travel (as senior editor); Entertainment Weekly; the New York Daily News and Times; Travel + Leisure and T+L Family; Newsweek; City; Frommers.com; the South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Arena (U.K.); Who (Australia); Scanorama and Seasons (Sweden). He has been an arts columnist for both Inside.com (late night TV) and Sidewalk.com (theater).

His writing has been awarded the Golden Pen by the Croatian government and was selected to appear in a permanent exhibit in the National Museum of Australia. He devised questions for the first American prime-time season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC) and before that, spent nearly two years backpacking solo around the world. As a commentator, he has appeared on CBS, Good Morning America, Fox News, Fox Philly (weekly segment), CNN, CNN Headline News, the CBC, CNNfn, Australia.com, WOR, Outdoor Life Network, MSNBC.com, and national radio shows including those of Arthur Frommer (as co-host and frequent guest) and Doug Stephan. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and New York University’s Graduate Music Theatre Writing Program.

Jason Cochran