Russell Gold

Russell Gold is an award-winning investigative business journalist at Texas Monthly.

He started his journalism career at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Antonio Express-News. In 2000, he joined The Wall Street Journal and covered Texas and economics, before switching to energy in 2002. His reporting has taken him to five continents and above the Arctic Circle two times.

In 2010, he was part of the Wall Street Journal team that covered the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. The Journal’s work was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for best business story of the year and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting.

He was a Pulitzer finalist again in 2019 for his part covering PG&E and how the utility contributed to the deadly 2018 Camp Fire. The reporting was also awarded another Loeb Award and the Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing from the National Press Foundation.

In 2021, he joined Texas Monthly as a senior editor where he writes about the business of Texas. His article on how the Texas blackouts could happen again was the recipient of the National City and Regional Magazine Civic Journalism award in 2023.

His first book, The Boom, was longlisted for the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the year prize in 2014. Superpower, his second book, was published in June 2019.

He earned a B.A. in history from Columbia University in 1993. He lives in Austin with his wife and two sons.