Donald Franklin began his career at the Post-Dispatch in 1967, becoming one of the first handful of Black reporters at the paper. In his 37 years there, he worked as a reporter, copy editor and assistant city editor. His first assignment was staffing the paper’s East St. Louis Bureau. He later covered the region’s crime beat. Donald was honored with a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to attend Columbia University where he earned a graduate degree in journalism. He capped a distinguished career in journalism by serving as the founder of the Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists.
