Jason Cochran is a travel, history, and consumer writer. He 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 was Executive Editor at AOL Travel and filed roaming video segments as Editor-at-Large for WalletPop.com. He has also written extensively for the New York Post, Budget Travel (as senior editor); Entertainment Weekly (as staff reporter); the New York Daily News and Times; USA Today; Travel + Leisure and T+L Family; Travel + Leisure.com; BBC Travel; Concierge.com; 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 the pioneer Web magazines 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, his regular appearances have included the host of AfterShark (the post-show to ABC’s Shark Tank), CBS’s The Early Show, his weekly segment on Fox Philly, as well as BBC World, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, the CBC, Good Morning America, CNNfn, Australia.com, WOR, Outdoor Life Network, MSNBC.com, and national radio shows including those of Arthur Frommer 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.

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