Barbara Corcoran and I at Aol’s studios, about to record an episode of her coaching show, “Practical Magic.”
The first segment premiered Friday at WalletPop.com.
She makes everyone around her better. She has the kind of energy that can leave you in the dust. I like to say that having a conversation with Barbara is like listening to five radio stations at the same time.
Jason Cochran is an award-winning travel journalist, pop historian, consumer reporter, and digital media pioneer. 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 the first editions of Orlando and Walt Disney World and San Francisco for the same series He was Executive Editor at AOL Travel and filed popular 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 milestone Web magazines Inside.com (covering late night TV) and Sidewalk.com (covering 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 in Canberra. 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. He originated, produced, and hosted AfterShark, the post-show for Mark Burnett’s prime-time program Shark Tank (ABC) and has been seen as a regular contributor to CBS’s The Early Show and on his weekly segment on Fox Philly. As a commentator, he has been on outlets including 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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