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.
Other ContributionsNewsweek
Entertainment Weekly
Travel + Leisure
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Post
Scanorama
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Magazine
Wallet Pop
Covered TopicsLondon
Budget Travel
Theme Parks
Orlando
EducationNorthwestern University
New York University
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President of FrommerMedia LLC, Editorial Director of the Frommer's guidebooks, author of the best-selling Frommer's New York City 2026 and Frommer's New York City Day by Day, host of The Frommer's Travel Show, named one of the 13 best podcasts for travel by the New York Times.
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Anna’s writing career started in journalism as a film critic for Time Out Paris. Today she is the author of eight travel guidebooks for Frommer’s and has written for multiple major publications, including the Financial Times, The Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, where she is a long-standing France expert. She is also an award-winning children’s book author, known for middle-grade comedy and interactive picture books. Recent titles include Death by Chocolate and Murder Unwrapped, the first books in a new cozy crime series, Coco Bean Investigates, set in France (and inspired by her guidebook travels). When not writing, she has been an actress and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Britain, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.
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