Frank Langfitt
Business Correspondent
Frank Langfitt has worked as a business correspondent at NPR since December, 2004. His stories on labor, the workplace, the auto industry and international trade can be heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Tell Me More and Planet Money. His beat has taken him from the coal mines of West Virginia to the factories of South China. Most recently, he covered the 2008 U.S. financial crisis and the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler. Before becoming a journalist, Frank drove a taxi in Philadelphia and dug latrines in Mexico.
Prior to NPR, Frank spent five years as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun in Beijing, covering a swath of Asia stretching from the Khyber Pass to East Timor. In his time overseas, he covered the Hong Kong handover, the fall of Suharto in Indonesia and reported from Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam. During the Afghan War, Frank reported from Pakistan and Kashmir. In China, he also traveled on horseback with Tibetan nomads and spent six months documenting the government's demolition of an old Beijing neighborhood.
In 2008, Frank returned to China to cover the Olympics for NPR. He was part of a team that won an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. Frank's print and visual journalism have also been honored by the Overseas Press Association and the White House News Photographers Association.
Before coming to the Sun, Frank spent several years in Hazard, Kentucky, where he covered the state's coalfields for the Lexington Herald-Leader. He got his start in journalism as a stringer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Frank is a graduate of Princeton and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
He lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, with his wife, Julie, a veterinarian, and their two children.
