Franklin briefed journalists in January 2024: Missing People of Color ‘Shunned’ by the Media, Advocates Say

Jonathan Franklin is a reporter for National Public Radio where he covers race and its intersection with culture, identity, and justice. For the last few years, Jonathan has been reporting and covering a broad spectrum of local and national news across the nation’s capital and the U.S. His reporting can be seen and heard across NPR’s digital, social, and audio platforms — such as All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Here & Now and NPR News Now.

Before NPR, Jonathan was a digital multimedia journalist for WUSA, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., where he covered the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Black community, D.C.’s racial protests and demonstrations following the murder of George Floyd, the 2020 presidential election and the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

Originally from Columbia, S.C., Jonathan graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University with his master’s in journalism, emphasizing in broadcast and digital journalism and from Wofford College with undergraduate degrees in both English and African/African American Studies. Jonathan is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., both the National and Washington Associations of Black Journalists, the Online News Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists.