{"id":1037,"date":"2019-06-11T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona19.journalists.org\/speaker\/tim-franklin\/"},"modified":"2019-06-11T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:38:53","slug":"tim-franklin","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona19.journalists.org\/speaker\/tim-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Franklin is Senior Associate Dean at the Medill School at Northwestern University. He\u2019s also the leader of the Medill Local News Initiative, a research-and-development project designed to help bolster the sustainability of local news.<br \/>\nBefore joining Medill in June 2017, Franklin was the President of The Poynter Institute, a leading international school for journalists and a media strategy center.<br \/>\nFranklin has been the top editor of three metro news organizations, The Indianapolis Star, Orlando Sentinel and Baltimore Sun. 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