Russell Gold (born 1971) is an author and journalist for Texas Monthly.[1] He was previously an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the San Antonio Express-News and suburban correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer.[2]
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[3] and a two-time winner of a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for Large Newspapers.[4] [5] [6]
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.[7] 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.[8] He received the International Association for Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2016.[9]
Gold graduated from Columbia University in 1993 with a degree in history.[10] He is the author of The Boom, a book that explores the history of Fracking, and "Superpower" about renewable energy and Michael Peter Skelly.[11]
The Boom (Simon & Schuster, 2014): In The Boom, Russell Gold examines the issue of fracking through interviews with memorable and colorful characters: a green-minded Texas oilman who created the first modern frack; an Oklahoman natural gas empire–builder who gave the world an enormous new supply of energy but was brought down by his own success; and many others. Russell not only details the history of fracking, but also underscores how the controversial procedure is changing the way we use energy.
Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy, (Simon & Schuster, 2019).