Member Profile
Stephen Franklin
Stephen Franklin, former labor and workplace reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is ethnic news director for the Community Media Workshop in Chicago. He is the author of Three Strikes: Labor’s Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans (2002), and has reported throughout the United States and the Middle East. He can be reached via e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Franklin, who speaks Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish, spent time in Egypt teaching journalists while on a Knight International Press Fellowship. He has received two Lisagor awards for business reporting and a George Polk Award for consumer interest reporting with Marcia Stepanek at the Detroit Free Press in 1983. Franklin lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, director of a local social services agency. The couple have two children.
Most Recent Articles
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Features
Hard Times For Turkish Dissenters
Many tout Turkey as a model for "Arab democracy," but its human rights record raises troubling questions more »
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Freedom of the Press Remains Elusive in Turkey
Though the government denies targeting journalists, more than 90 Turkish journalists have spent most of the last year behind bars more »
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Letter from the Syrian Border
An on-the-ground report from the growing Syrian refugee camps in Turkey. more »
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Working
Turkey Arrests Public-Sector Unionists Under Broad Terror Law
ISTANBUL, Turkey—They were upfront and loud, not unusual behavior for discontented labor unions anywhere. They had more »
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Working
‘There Is Not Enough Work’: Nearly Half of Mexicans Now Officially Poor
OAXACA, MEXICO—The night is long and lonely and taxi driver Fernando has no choice but to more »
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Working
Below Soaring CEOs, Struggling Black and Latino Youths
We hear much nowadays about the rich, and how rising inequality is a result of just how wealthy more »
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Working
Goin’ Backward in Indiana: Muncie’s Omen and the Push for ‘Right to Work’
As Indiana legislators move closer to passing a "right-to-work" law, consider Muncie’s omen. This can be more »
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Working
More Than a Number: Troubling Trends Behind the Dropping Unemployment Rate
So the unemployment rate’s drop last month means we’re heading out of this tunnel, more »
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Working
Welcome Home Vets: Your Jobs Are Long Gone
By Stephen Franklin If you have ever spent time with the people fighting our wars today, you know more »
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Working
Iran’s Simmering Labor Struggle
'Sooner or later,' an Iranian union organizer says, the country's precarious economy 'will blow up'—and more »
