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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The new measures were announced in Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's nightly address on the city's ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic. -
County health director Barbara Ferrer also joined L.A.'s mayor in recommending face coverings for anyone who needs to go out and about. -
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is set to give his nightly update on the city's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Watch live. -
The new numbers and information came during Los Angeles County's daily coronavirus task force briefing.
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All farmers markets in L.A. must close until they can show the city they have a plan to enforce safe social distancing among patrons. -
So far, one inmate and four staff at correctional facilities have also tested positive, and at least two people among the city's homeless have infections.
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Southern California has been in high gear when it comes to getting ready for a surge of COVID-19 patients. We have the latest. -
L.A. will also get a chief logistics officer, Port of Los Angeles executive director Eugene Seroka, to help secure critical materials to fight the coronavirus pandemic. -
The county said two of the people whose deaths were reported yesterday, including one who was 50-60 years old, did not have any reported underlying health conditions. -
Garcetti used some of his strongest language yet to urge people to stay home: "These aren't suggestions, I remind you, these are orders. We are in the midst of a pandemic."
