Carrie Cochran has been a filmmaker and journalist for the Scripps Washington Bureau's investigative team since April 2018. Before coming to D.C., she worked for her hometown paper, The Cincinnati Enquirer, for 13 years, where she was a photographer, reporter and videojournalist.
In 2018, Cochran was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for her contributions to "Seven Days of Heroin." She was the lead producer, lead editor and a cinematographer for the 30-minute documentary that was part of the winning entry, and was also the reporter and still photographer for several of the text vignettes. The documentary also won a National Murrow Award.
She and her two colleagues were the first to share the story of Jim Obergefell and John Arthur. Obergefell later became the lead plaintiff in the landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized gay marriage. She has also covered Hurricane Katrina, immigration in Mexico, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Cochran extensively covered the aftermath of the shooting of Sam DuBose in 2015, including the murder trial of police officer Ray Tensing.
Cochran was named among the top photojournalism multimedia producers internationally for her portfolio of video work by the National Press Photographers Association's annual contest in 2016.
