Stephen Franklin
Project Director
Media Management Center
phone: 773-595-8667; 773-938-1185 freedomwrites@hotmail.com
Skype: Stephan.Franklin2
Stephen Franklin is an award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He covered the Middle East for the Tribune as a bureau chief and on numerous assignments in the region. He has also reported from Central and Latin America. Besides the Tribune, he worked for the Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Miami Herald, and the Washington Daily News. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer prize, and a series of his articles were among the top investigative stories cited by the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2007. He has trained Egyptian journalists for the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and for the Cairo-based Media Development Program.
Franklin has a bachelor's degree from Penn State University in political science and a master's degree in political science from American University, Washington, D.C. He was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan, where he studied Arabic and Middle Eastern politics and society. He has taught journalism at Columbia College in Chicago. He was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey. He is the author of "Three Strikes," a book examining the impact of globalization on businesses, workers and workers' rights. He has written for the Columbia Journalism Review, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Nation.
Franklin has been working with the Media Management Center since the fall of 2008.