Glenn Frankel

Glenn Frankel

Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Journalism

Rm.342 McClatchy Hall
(650) 725-7092
frankelg@stanford.edu

Glenn Frankel worked for 27 years at the Washington Post as a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. He is the author of two books and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He is teaching courses in basic news reporting and writing, magazine journalism and human rights.

A graduate of Columbia University, he began his newspaper career in 1973 at the Richmond (Va.) Mercury, then went to The Record in Bergen County, N.J., in 1975. He joined the Washington Post in 1979 as Richmond bureau chief. His first foreign posting was in 1983 as Southern Africa bureau chief, based in Harare, Zimbabwe, covering famine, development issues and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In 1986 he became Jerusalem bureau chief, winning the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for "balanced and sensitive reporting" of the first Palestinian intifada. He became London bureau chief in 1989, reporting on the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political demise of Margaret Thatcher and the Gulf War.

He returned to the Washington Post newsroom in 1994, serving as deputy National News editor and projects writer, overseeing coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial and the Oklahoma City bombing. In 1998 he became editor of the Washington Post Magazine, where he ran a staff of 25 people and edited stories that won a Robert F. Kennedy Award and Sigma Delta Chi's prize for magazine writing. He returned to London as bureau chief in 2002, reporting on European affairs and British politics, the fallout from the invasion of Iraq War and the Arab-Israeli conflict, concluding his assignment by covering the London transit system bombings in July 2005.

His first book, Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel (Simon & Schuster, 1994) won the National Jewish Book Award. His second, Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), was a finalist for the Alan Paton Award, South Africa's most prestigious literary prize. He was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 1982-3 and an Alicia Patterson Fellow in 1997.