Brian Frank
I'm a journalist with a product mindset, combining data, automation, and storytelling to engage and inform the community. I help to oversee our daily and breaking news coverage while shepherding some of our larger initiatives, including the development of interactive tools that have allowed readers to explore the health of our bridges, track wildfires, and navigate elections.
I've relished the sage and chaparral scents of Southern California since I was a boy, but like so many Angelenos I only landed in L.A. as an adult. I stay for the city's rugged trails and creative energy, the inimitable color of its light, the pink donut boxes and kaleidoscopic flavors, the neighborhoods without any signs in English, the way its denizens tattoo their truths on the streets, and for all the people who tirelessly defy both labels and expectations.
In a previous life, I taught English as a second language in a tiny seaside town in Japan and oversaw a program for at-risk youth on the edge of the Alaskan bush.
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At least three buildings burned in Santa Clarita before crews managed to stop forward progress on the fire. -
Officials have said it was a police bullet that killed 27-year-old store manager Melyda Corado. -
The fire broke out just before noon in San Bernardino National Forest and had burned 4,700 acres by nightfall. -
Questions remain after a beloved employee was killed during a police standoff with a gunman who took hostages at the Trader Joe's in Silver Lake Saturday. -
Mandatory evacuation orders were declared for Mabey Canyon Road and parts of the Orchard Glen community. -
Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for the entire community of Forest Falls. -
California's equivalent of the Tour de France kicked off in Long Beach Sunday, and for the first time men and women will be awarded equally. -
Homeless advocates had criticized similar proposed sites, raising concerns about access to services, transportation and jobs, since the goal is to move as many people as possible off the the streets permanently. -
The department has come under scrutiny in recent years amid heightened protests over police violence against young black men. -
The L.A.-based physician spent $500 million for the newspaper, ending its rocky relationship with parent company Tronc, which owns the Chicago Tribune.
