Jason Cochran

Jason Cochran is Editor-in-Chief of news and features at Frommer’s, the international consumer reporting publisher that has been guiding travelers on their vacations since 1957.

He began his career as a reporter for Entertainment Weekly magazine and The Village Voice before creating one of the earliest travel blogs, Stap Vinnig Oor, over the course of a multi-year journey. In the years since, he has been an editor-at-large and video host for the consumer reporting website WalletPop.com, a question writer for ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and Editor of the Travel section at AOL.

For a half decade, he served as co-host of The Travel Show on WABC in New York City.

His commentary and writing have also appeared in outlets including The New York Times, Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal's Buy Side, and Sweden’s Scanorama.

His books include Here Lies America: Buried Agendas & Family Secrets at the Tourist Sites Where Bad History Went Down. For Frommer's, he writes the guides London and Disney World, Universal & Orlando, and contributes to England & Scotland.

Jason has a B.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and an M.F.A. from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He has twice been awarded Guide Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers’ Lowell Thomas Awards.