Russell Gold

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Russell Gold (born 1971) is an author and journalist for Texas Monthly.{{cite magazine |last= Roush |first= Chris |date= July 9, 2021|title= WSJ reporter Gold joining Texas Monthly|url= https://talkingbiznews.com/they-talk-biz-news/wsj-reporter-gold-joining-texas-monthly/|magazine= Talking Biz News|access-date= January 3, 2022}} He was previously an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the San Antonio Express-News and suburban correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer.[http://economics.wsj.com/?speakers=russell-gold#undefined Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics]

He is best known for his energy reporting on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the cause of the Camp Fire (2018). He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2011-National-Reporting Pulitzer Prize website] and a two-time winner of a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for Large Newspapers.{{Cite web |url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-winners |title=Loeb Award Winners |date=June 28, 2011 |website=UCLA Anderson School of Management |access-date=February 2, 2019}}[http://businessjournalism.org/2011/06/28/wsj-bloomberg-nyt-take-multiple-2011-gerald-loeb-awards/ Gerald Loeb website]{{Cite press release |title=Anderson School of Management announces 2020 Loeb Award winners in business journalism |url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-anderson-school-of-management-2020-loeb-award-winners |date=November 13, 2020 |access-date=November 13, 2020 |publisher=UCLA Anderson School of Management |last1=Trounson |first1=Rebecca}}

In 2019, he was part of a Wall Street Journal team whose reporting on Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the cause of the Camp Fire (2018) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020.{{cite web| url = https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-wall-street-journal-0| title = The Pulitzer Prizes}} The reporting was also awarded the Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing from the National Press Foundation, and a Geral Loeb Award for Beat Reporting.{{Cite web|url=https://nationalpress.org/awards/thomas-l-stokes-award-for-best-energy-writing/?a=4961|title = Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing}}

He received the International Association for Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2016.[https://www.iaee.org/en/inside/award-journalism.aspx/ IAEE website]

Gold graduated from Columbia University in 1993 with a degree in history.{{Cite web|date=2020-05-18|title=AitN: May 18, 2020|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/alumni-news/aitn-may-18-2020|access-date=2022-02-11|website=Columbia College Today|language=en}} He is the author of The Boom, a book that explores the history of Fracking, and "Superpower" about renewable energy and Michael Peter Skelly.{{Cite book|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Superpower/Russell-Gold/9781501163586|isbn = 9781501163593|title = Superpower|date = 10 November 2020|last1 = Gold|first1 = Russell| publisher=Simon and Schuster }}