Media Wall Of Fame

 

DOUGLAS FRANTZ '71

Inducted: October, 2006

When announcing Doug Frantz’s appointment as managing editor at the Los Angeles Times in October of 2005, editor Dean Baquet described Frantz ‘71 as: “a leader on news, enterprise, and investigations . . . who has covered some of the biggest local, national and international stories, including the illegal arming of Iraq, corruption in the Teamsters union and insider trading on Wall Street.”

Frantz began his noteworthy career after four years in Greencastle at DePauw University. He graduated in 1971 with a B.A. in English Composition and went on to complete a Master’s at Columbia University. His professional newspaper career began at the News-Journal in his hometown of North Manchester, Indiana, where he was a reporter and photographer. In 1975 Frantz became city editor at the Albuquerque Tribune, and then three years later he moved to the Chicago Tribune, where he served as a Metro reporter and later a Washington reporter.

In 1987, Frantz joined the Los Angeles Times as a business reporter, and eventually became an investigative reporter in their Washington bureau. From 1994 to 2000, Frantz was an investigative reporter for The New York Times, later becoming the paper’s investigations editor. He rejoined the Los Angeles Times in May 2003 as an investigative reporter based in Istanbul.

Frantz is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and was recognized for a Los Angeles Times series chronicling the arming of Iraq before the Gulf War, and for a New York Times series on the Church of Scientology. His other investigative reporting honors include a 1995 and 1997 Worth Bingham Prize and a 1993 Goldsmith Prize.

With his wife Catherine Collins, Doug Frantz has authored a biography of AQ Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, as well as “Death on the Black Sea: The Untold Story of the Struma and World War II’s Holocaust at Sea,” “Celebration USA: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town,” and six other nonfiction books.

 

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