Barbara Cochran, the network news veteran who has been president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association for more than 11 years, will step down and become consultant and president emeritus when her contract expires at the end of June.
The announcement Thursday said the journalism organization’s board of directors has begun the process of seeking a successor.
In a telephone conversation, Ms. Cochran acknowledged that RTNDA, like all media organizations for which its members work, is “trying our best to come up with cost-effective ways to deliver services to our members.”
She likes to point out that the cost of one annual membership in RTNDA, which, among other things, lobbies on behalf of First Amendment and other journalism issues at the Federal Communications Commission and on Capitol Hill, is less than the cost of one hour of a lawyer’s time to do similar duties.
As to her plans after stepping down, in addition to consulting for RTNDA, “I’ll see what turns up,” she said. “I’m involved in a couple of things that involve journalism education and scholarships.”
Before she joined RTNDA in 1997, Ms. Cochran was Washington bureau chief for CBS News, the first woman to hold that position for a network. She previously had been executive producer of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” National Public Radio news VP and managing editor of the Washington Star. She is married to ABC News senior correspondent John Cochran.
During Ms. Cochran’s tenure as its president, RTNDA won its 20-year battle to abolish the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine, which applied to personal attacks and political editorializing; helped win immediate access for the news media to audio recordings of the arguments at the Supreme Court in the 2000 presidential election dispute; and participated in sweeping reform of the Freedom of Information Act.
Cochran to Step Down as RTNDA President in June
Nov 13, 2008 • Post A Comment
Very impressive website mate, I will bookmark and return when I have a bit more time.
Appreciation for the great blog post. I am glad I have taken the time to learn this.
I love the expression. Everyone needs to express there own opinion and feel free to hear others. Keep it up 🙂
nice blog here, i just signed up for your rss feed and will be following you
Way to focus and straight to your point, i love it. Keep up the work people. Dont let anyone stop us bloggers.
Dreamin. I love blogging. You all express your feelings the right way, because they are your feeling, focus on your blog it is great.
You make blogging look like a walk in the park! I’ve been trying to blog daily but I just cant find writing material.. you’re an inspiration to me and i’m sure many others!
I love the way you write and also the theme on your blog. Did you code this yourself or was it done by a professional? I’m very very impressed.
I love the writing relevancy of your blog and it does a sweet decent work of presenting the info.