Douglas Frantz (born September 29, 1949 in North Manchester, Indiana)[2] is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative journalist and author, and served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2015 to 2017.

Frantz was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

[9] As the Los Angeles Times Managing Editor, Frantz blocked a story on the Armenian genocide in April 2007 written by Mark Arax, a veteran Times journalist of Armenian descent.

Frantz argued that Arax previously had expressed an opinion on the topic and therefore was biased on the subject, apparently referring to a letter co-signed by Arax that endorsed the LA Times policy of referring to the event as "Armenian Genocide".

[10] Arax, who has published similar articles before,[11] lodged a discrimination complaint and threatened a federal lawsuit.