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Russell Gold is an award-winning investigative 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 awarded a another Loeb Award, this time for beat reporting, and also the Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing from the National Press Foundation.
His book, The Boom, was longlisted for the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the year prize in 2014. Superpower was published in June 2019.
In 2021, he joined Texas Monthly to cover business in the Lone Star State. His article on the continuing threat of blackouts in Texas won the National City and Regional Magazine 2023 Award for Civic Journalism.
He earned a B.A. in history from Columbia University in 1993. He lives in Austin with his wife and two children.
Russell Gold is an award-winning investigative journalist at Texas Monthly. He is the author of two books (The Boom and Superpower). He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winner of two Loeb Awards and a Peabody Award. He previously covered energy for the Wall Street Journal for 20 years.
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