Russell Gold (born 1971) is an author and journalist for The Wall Street Journal.He was previously an investigative reporter for San Antonio Express-News and suburban correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
He is best known for his reporting on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalistand winner of a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for Large Newspapers for the Wall Street Journal's coverage of the blowout and spill.
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. The reporting was also awarded the Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing from the National Press Foundation.
He received the International Association for Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2016.
Gold graduated from Columbia University in 1993 with a degree in history. He is the author of The Boom, a book that explores the history of Fracking, and "Superpower" about renewable energy and Michael Peter Skelly.