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Jonathan Franklin

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Santiago
As seen in: The Guardian, Medium, MSN, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK, Barnes and Noble, Pew Research Center, Sydney Morning Herald and
Covers:  Chilean uprising, Peru organized Crime, Disorganized Crime in Brazil.
Doesn't Cover: celebrity weddings
investigative reporter/dad with 7 daughters

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Jonathan Franklin’s Biography

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Reporter The Guardian, Observer, "Dirty Money" (NETFLIX)

Author 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

Contributor Bloomberg/BusinessWeek - Esquire - GQ

Currently writing the biography of eco-philanthropist Doug Tompkins. Covering the Chilean Uprising, Organized Crime in Latin America and a chronicle of what happens to your brain (and heart) while raising 7 daughters.

Jonathan Franklin’s Journalist Portfolio

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Chile students' debts go up in smoke

Chile students' debts go up in smoke

For a whole year, a Chilean artist using the name Fried Potatoes (Papas Fritas) planned his revenge. Saying h…

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Chile students' debts go up in smoke

Chile students' debts go up in smoke

For a whole year, a Chilean artist using the name Fried Potatoes (Papas Fritas) planned his revenge. Saying h…

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Cell to Cell: How Smuggled Mobile Phones Are Rewiring Brazil's Prisons

Cell to Cell: How Smuggled Mobile Phones Are Rewiring Brazil's Prisons

Brazilian Prisoners are using cellphones to rewire the concept of incarceration.

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How to Burglarize the FBI

How to Burglarize the FBI

In 1970, a collection of ordinary citizens became so outraged by illegal government spying that they began to…

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Edward Snowden Evolved From Gaming Geek to Conscientious Whistleblower

Edward Snowden Evolved From Gaming Geek to Conscientious Whistleblower

2003 was the last that 18-year-old Edward Snowden lived a normal life. Snowden, a computer gaming jock and fa…

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Camila Vallejo: 'They tried to create caricatures of me'

Camila Vallejo: 'They tried to create caricatures of me'

Camila Vallejo is the antithesis of the average Chilean politician. She's not a man, she's not rich and she's…

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Articles

‘I can’t think of a place more pristine’: 133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising

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A wild valley in Chilean Patagonia has been preserved for future generations and protected from logging, damming and unbridled development after a remarkable fundraising effort by local groups, the Guardian can reveal.
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The Game Starts at 8. The Robbery Starts at 8:01

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At 8:14 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2024, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback , the dashing No. 9, hit the field in Arlington, Texas, for a Monday Night Football showdown against the Dallas Cowboys. One minute later, Olivia Ponton, his housemate back in Ohio, was calling 911. “Someone broke into our house,” said the model and influencer, who’d just arrived to find the home in disarray. She pleaded with police to dispatch officers to the scene.
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My family and I were sound asleep - then a tsunami swept our house out to sea

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Jolted awake at 4.30am, Pedro “Peter” Niada was certain a meteorite had fallen near his seaside home, lifting it from its foundations and sending it flying through the air. He took two steps down the stairs, felt water splash his feet and realised the house was sinking. Nothing made sense. Why was the house tilting? Why could he hear what sounded like a waterfall outside?
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Getting coffee for old men at the New York Times - could never tell if they were yelling "coffee" or "copy".

Have you ever used a typewriter?

For thousands of hours, beginning in 5th grade!

How is social media changing news?

Bringing floods of new information which means journalists can help sort wheat from chaff, organic from processed and fresh from stale.

Awards

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1991 - Most Censored Story

I posed as a mortician and was hired by US Air Force to embalm dead US soldiers coming back from the Gulf War.

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