- Longtime executive editor of the New York Times, he is the father of David Frankel.
- He won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Richard Nixon 's trip to China in 1972.
- Himself and his family fled Nazi Germany in 1938. They crossed into the Soviet Union, where Jacob Frankel, his father, was arrested on suspicion of being a German spy and was given the choice of Soviet citizenship or a sentence of hard labor in Siberia.
- He won the George Polk Memorial Award for "best daily newspaper interpretation" of foreign affairs in 1970.
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