Mick Cochran has been working for newspapers for about 35 years, as a photographer/writer, photo editor, art director and director of photography. He did waver a bit, once. Early in his career he worked for a year as a bio-medical photographer for a forensic pathologist (365 autopsies, 150 coroner’s cases and bunches of surgical photography).
He has been art director at the Providence (R.I.) Journal, assistant managing editor/photo and graphics at the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and photo and graphics editor at the Springfield (Ill.) State Journal Register.
Mick was a faculty member of the Visual Edge at the Poynter Institute for journalist studies for three years and a visiting lecturer at Poynter’s “Leadership Issues for Visual Journalists” seminar. He served as: visiting lecturer in the illustration department at Rhode Island School of Design; chairman of the Mid-American Press Institute; a six-year veteran of the National Press Photographer Association’s Electronic Photojournalism Workshop; and has been an editing faculty member at the Mountain Workshops since 2002.
He’s currently director of photography at USA Today.
