# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-franchetti
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:57:58.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-franchetti"
name: "Mark Franchetti"
slug: "mark-franchetti"
description: "Mark Franchetti is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. He worked for 23 years as a correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, much of it as the paper's Moscow correspondent. Fluent in five languages, Franchetti was awarded the British Press Award in 2003, after reporting on the Moscow theatre siege, when he entered the building twice during the hostage taking to interview the terrorists and a Foreign Press Association award in 2004 for his reports on the alleged abuse of Iraqi civilians by U.S Marines. He writes mainly about Russia and the former Soviet Union, has reported extensively on the conflict in Chechnya and covered the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, and Ukraine."
tagline: "British journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1967-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.010944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1463439/"
    handle:    "nm1463439"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مارك فرانشيتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارك فرانتشيتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Franchetti"
    title: "Mark Franchetti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Franchetti"
    title: "Mark Franchetti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Franchetti"
    title: "Mark Franchetti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Франкетти, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3849483"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1150729"
    title: "Mark Franchetti"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump