Jonathan Franklin

Who is Jonathan Franklin?

Jonathan Franklin is an investigative journalist and TV commentator on Latin American politics and news. Franklin was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, and raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.

Franklin attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1983–1988 and then worked as a news clerk at The New York Times in Manhattan. From 1990 to 1995 Franklin lived in San Francisco and worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly as well as The Boston Globe.

As a reporter for Playboy magazine in the early 1990s, Franklin interviewed prominent figures in the United States, including Patrick Buchanan and Timothy McVeigh.

Since 1995 Franklin has lived and worked in South America, with a base in Santiago, Chile. His work is regularly published by Playboy, GQ, Esquire, Marie Claire and hundreds of other magazines around the world. He currently lives in Santiago with his wife Toty Garfe and his seven daughters - Francisca, Susan, Maciel, Kimberly, Amy, Zoe and Akira.

Jonathan is the Chile correspondent for The Guardian newspaper.