Douglas Frantz, former Times managing editor, to be chief investigator for Senate panel.
He will work for the Foreign Relations Committee under its new chairman, Sen. John Kerry. Kerry aide David McKean will take over as chief of staff.
Reporting from Washington — Douglas Frantz, a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been chosen to be chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as it reorganizes under its new chairman, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).
Frantz was the managing editor of the Times from 2005 to 2007 and has also been an investigative reporter for The Times, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times. He also served as that paper's Istanbul bureau chief.
The committee, the focus of the Senate's foreign affairs deliberations, will have as its chief of staff David McKean. McKean has been chief of staff in Kerry's personal office since 1999 and helped lay the groundwork for Kerry's presidential run in 2004.
Frederick L. Jones, a career foreign service officer and White House official in the George W. Bush and Clinton administrations, will be the committee's communications director.
The committee's chairmanship came open when its former chairman, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) became vice president-elect.
paul.richter@latimes.com
