Brian Frank
Consultant And Product Manager at Freelance
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBrian Frank is a product-minded news producer and editor with 12+ years translating complex newsroom workflows into practical systems and products. He has led cross-platform projects—from live election dashboards and interactive maps to source-diversity trackers and integrated editorial planning systems—combining human-centered design with hands-on implementation and change management. A former ESL teacher and at-risk-youth program manager, he brings uncommon empathy to newsroom training and user research, running dozens of user tests and writing detailed user stories and acceptance criteria. His work helped win regional awards and drove measurable audience and operational gains at LAist/KPCC, and he now consults to build scalable editorial tooling for mid-sized newsrooms.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Online Journalism, M.A., Online Journalism at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California, Irvine
Japanese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (49)
query-language10
obsidian10
switcher9
backup9
font-size8
vault8
markdown7
git7
iterative7
typescript7
high-performance7
hotkeys6
dataview6
plugin6
typewriter5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frankreporting/obsidian-things-like
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
frankreporting/frankreporting.github.io
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 8 months
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