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Frank Langfitt

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Frank Langfitt is NPR's international correspondent based in Shanghai. He was previously based in Nairobi, Kenya, as NPR's East Africa correspondent.

NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt, NF ’03, finds his best stories behind the wheel of a free cab he drives in Shanghai

NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt, NF ’03, finds his best stories behind the wheel of a free cab he drives in Shanghai

In the summers during college, I drove taxis in Philadelphia. All sorts of people opened up in the anonymity of a cab. Three decades later, while covering China for NPR,…

Covering the Sago Mine Disaster

How a game of ‘whisper down the coal mine’ ricocheted around the world.