Email: Howard LaFranchi
Howard LaFranchi has been the Monitor's diplomacy correspondent in DC since 2001. Previously, he spent 12 years as a reporter in the field; serving five years as the Monitor's Paris bureau chief from 1989 to 1994, and as a Latin America correspondent in Mexico City from 1994 to 2001. LaFranchi has continued to travel as diplomacy correspondent and covered the Iraq War from the Monitor's Baghdad bureau on numerous occasions.Prior to joining the Monitor, LaFranchi worked as the City Hall reporter for the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley Journalism School and has a Masters Degree in Journalism from Boston University.
Stories by Howard LaFranchi
- Can independent news outlets in Ukraine survive loss of USAID funding?
- Facing waves of Russian drones, Ukraine鈥檚 defenders fight frustration
- Why is Russia hitting Kharkiv dairies? One Ukrainian theory: Envy.
- Despite differences on Gaza and Iran, Trump and Netanyahu project unity
- In Mideast and at NATO summit, Trump models norm-busting diplomacy
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