Education
Frantz graduated from DePauw University in 1971.
Frantz graduated from DePauw University in 1971.
He was forced to resign as Los Angeles Times Managing Editor due to his denial of the Armenian Genocide. He was an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times. Frantz served as the Istanbul bureau chief for the New York Times, and the managing editor of The Los Angeles Times from 2005 to 2007.
He developed close links to the Turkish government when serving as the Istanbul Bureau chief for the New York Times.
Frantz was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is also the former Managing Director of Kroll’s Business Intelligence Washington office.
From 2013 to 2015, Frantz served as the State Department"s Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. Armenian Genocide denial
As the Los Angeles Times Managing Editor, Frantz blocked a story on the Armenian Genocide in April 2007 written by Mark Arax, allegedly citing the fact Arax was of Armenian descent and therefore had a biased opinion on the subject.
Arax, who has published similar articles before, has lodged a discrimination complaint and threatened a federal lawsuit.
Frantz, who did not cite any specific factual errors in the article, was accused of having a bias obtained while being stationed in Istanbul, Turkey. Harut Sassounian, an Armenian community leader, accused Frantz of having expressed support for denial of the Armenian Genocide and has stated he personally believed that Armenians rebelled against the Ottoman Empire, an claim commonly used to justify the killings. Arax demanded a public apology from Frantz, which he declined to comment on.
Frantz resigned from the paper not long afterward on July 6, possibly due to the mounting requests for his dismissal.
He returned to Istanbul after leaving.