Frank Langfitt

Frank Langfitt spent nearly two decades as an international correspondent reporting from more than 50 countries and territories. Based most recently in London, he covered Brexit, the war in Ukraine and the death of the Queen. Before that, he was based in Shanghai, Beijing and Nairobi, where he covered Somali pirates and the civil war from Mogadishu. While in China, he drove a free taxi for a series on a changing China as seen through the eyes of ordinary people. Langfitt expanded his reporting into a book, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China (Public Affairs, Hachette). Langfitt now works as NPR’s Roving National Correspondent, covering lesser-known stories, including those about democracy, economics, politics and culture. He is a graduate of Princeton and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.