Jason Cochran

Jason Cochran, author of the award-winning book "Here Lies America," has been a travel authority and consumer reporter for nearly 25 years, starting in 1998 when, on a two-year round-the-world backpacking trip, he created one of the first regular travel blogs in the industry. He's been a regular writer for publications including Travel + Leisure, the New York Post, USA Today, and The New York Times, Scanorama (Sweden), and he has been on staff at Entertainment Weekly, Budget Travel, and AOL Travel (as Executive Editor). He devised questions for the first American prime-time season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (ABC) and produced and hosted "AfterShark," the post-show for Mark Burnett's "Shark Tank" (ABC). He has appeared as a commentator on, among other programs, CBS This Morning, The Early Show (CBS), BBC World, Good Morning America, CNN, and the CBC, and as a video host on AOL. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and New York University's Graduate Music Theatre Writing Program. Jason has twice won Guide Book of the Year in the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, is currently Editor-in-Chief of Frommers.com and for half a decade served as co-host of the weekly Frommer Travel Show on WABC, broadcast out of New York City.