About the Author

About the Author

Barbara Cochran is the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. As a member of the school’s Washington program faculty, Cochran engages in programs of research, consulting and training aimed at improving the practice of journalism. She works with the Committee of Concerned Journalists, also located in Washington, and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.

She served for 12 years as president of the Radio Television Digital News Association, the world’s largest professional organization of journalists working in television, radio, online and other electronic media, becoming president emeritus on her retirement in 2009. Before joining RTNDA, she worked in journalism in Washington for 28 years. She held leadership positions in newspapers, radio and television, serving as managing editor of the Washington Star, vice president for news at National Public Radio, executive producer of NBC’s Meet the Press and vice president and Washington bureau chief of CBS News.

At NPR, she directed the creation of Morning Edition, which, along with All Things Considered, received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award during her tenure.

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