Brian Frank
Web Editor for SoCal Connected, KCET's award-winning television newsmagazine. He has worked in just about every medium, with stories appearing on TV, radio, Web, and print. He is also the editor of the Online Journalism Review at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where he received his master's degree in online journalism. Prior to that he was an educator specializing in literacy development, a gig that carried him from one tiny seaside town in Japan to another in Alaska.
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