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Vice president and Washington bureau chief, CBS News; Executive producer, NBC's Meet the Press; Vice president of news, National Public Radio; and, Managing editor, Washington Star. ... Cochran is a founding board member of the International Women's Media Foundation and serves on the National Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute, the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland College of Journalism, the Advisory Committee of the Newseum, and the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She is a juror for the DuPont-Columbia Awards and the Peabody Awards. ... She and her husband John Cochran, senior correspondent for ABC News, live in Washington." [http://www.rtnda.org/about/cochran.shtml]
==Defending & Denying Fake TV News==
In an April 2005 interview Barabara Conchran argued against mandatory on-screen identification of [[video news releases]] so the viewer was informed of the origin of the material. While acknowledging that VNR material "is now flooding into stations from all different directions" she downplayed the extent of its use. "I don't think we really know how prevalent that [use of VNRs] is," she said. [http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_031805_newshole.html]
"If a government video news release is used, it needs to be clearly labeled," she said though remaining silent on the issue of corporate VNRs. Nor does she support the [[Federal Communications Commission]] requiring stations to disclose VNRs. "I think that this is something that stations need to solve for themselves. It's in the station's interest to protect its credibility," she said.
In a June, 2005, interview with the Washington Times, Cochran ridiculed charges that the use of Fake TV News was widespread or undisclosed. Chris Baker reported that " [[The Radio-Television News Directors Association]], a group that represents top newsroom managers, submitted a 13-page statement [to the Federal Communications Commission] that said few TV stations air VNRs, and those that do almost always identify the source. The association based its position on an informal survey of 100 members, according to Barbara Cochran, the group's president. Concrete data on VNR use is hard to come by, she said. " '''It's kind of like the Loch Ness Monster. Everyone talks about it, but not many people have actually seen it'''," Ms. Cochran said. [http://washingtontimes.com/business/20050628-094856-8762r.htm]
==External Links==
* Chris Baker, [http://washingtontimes.com/business/20050628-094856-8762r.htm TV news colored by dose of PR], Washington Times, June 29, 2005
