Jonathan Franklin

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Jonathan Franklin (born September 6, 1964 in Manchester , New Hampshire ) is an American journalist and television commentator .

Life

Franklin grew up in Lincoln , Massachusetts and graduated from high school there before attending Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island from 1983 to 1988 . He began his professional career as a reporter for The New York Times and moved to San Francisco , California in 1990 . There he worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly as well as The Boston Globe . During these years he interviewed several celebrities for Playboy magazine .

In 1995 Franklin went to South America as a journalist . He has lived in Santiago de Chile with his wife and seven daughters since 1996 . He works there as a correspondent for the British daily newspaper The Guardian , but continues to write for various magazines such as Playboy . He is co-founder of the news agency www.addictvillage.com and wrote reports there on various topics from South America.

Since 2010, Franklin has written two books that report incredible events, one about the rescue of 33 miners from a Chilean copper mine and the other in 2015 about the 438-day odyssey of the El Salvador fisherman José Salvador Alvarenga in the Pacific .

Publications

  • 33 Men: The Definite Account of the Chilean Miners . Simon & Schuster, New York City 2010.
    • German: 33 men, buried alive: The exclusive insider story about the Chilean miners . Bertelsmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-10094-3 .
  • 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea . Simon & Schuster, New York City 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the workshop of the devil in Der Spiegel 7/2011, February 2011
personal data
SURNAME Franklin, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and television commentator
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester, New Hampshire , United States