Barbara Cochran

According to the website of the Radio and Televison News Directors Association, " Barbara Cochran has been president of RTNDA and RTNDF since 1997. ... Before joining RTNDA/F, she held the following positions: 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." [1]