David Cochrane is a political reporter in Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...

, Canada

Canada

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. He works with CBC Television

CBC Television

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news program Here and Now and with CBC Radio

CBC Radio

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. Cochrane primarily covers the provincial legislature, but fills in on the front desk of Here and Now.

Education

He received his bachelor of arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Memorial University of Newfoundland, is a comprehensive university located primarily in St...

 in 1997 with a double major in English and History. While in University, Cochrane worked as the news editor for his student newspaper, The Muse.

Career

In 1998 he worked with Canadian University Press

Canadian University Press

Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 90 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada. Founded in 1938, CUP is the oldest student newswire service in the world and the oldest national student organization in North America. Many...

 as the Ottawa Bureau Chief. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

 (CBC) took interest in Cochrane while he was writing columns for The Telegram

The Telegram

The Telegram is a daily newspaper published in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.-History:The Evening Telegram was first published on April 3, 1879 by William James Herder. It adopted its current name in 1998, although it was also briefly published under this name in 1881...

, St. John's daily newspaper. His CBC career began as a summer job and became full time employment.

He has described his role as a reporter as "part-gossip, part-detective." He has broken a number of stories about political happenings in the province. In early 2007, he gave an address to the St. John's Board of Trade that critiqued the habit of provincial politicians using the legislature to change the ground rules in various confrontations with industry and business.