Programs he helped create include Marketplace,[4][2][3] Weekend America, and public TV's Newton's Apple, NightTimes, Electronicle and America After Vietnam.
He also helped develop NPR's Morning Edition[2] and All Things Considered,[5] and PRI's The World.
[6] As a result of having a US Foreign Service employee as a parent, grew up in Pakistan, Greece and Italy[4] until age 16, which he credited with giving him "the ability to look at the world and my own country through others’ eyes.”[3] Russell began working for commercial radio stations in the Washington, D.C. market as a college student, including one of the earliest stations dedicated entirely to news; there, he delivered live coverage of major events including the Poor People's March on Washington, a protest against the Vietnam War in front of the Pentagon, and the 1968 Washington, D.C., riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
[3] He died on September 13, 2022,[2][3] after suffering a fall and spending several days in the intensive care unit followed by hospice.
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