Russell D. Owen (January 8, 1889 – April 3, 1952) was an American journalist employed by The New York Times.
[1] After short stints elsewhere, Owen moved to The New York Times in 1921 and returned in 1926 after two years running the General Electric news bureau.
[1] That year he covered the air race to the North Pole, flying with Roald Amundsen (airship Norge) as far as Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard and meeting Richard Evelyn Byrd there.
[3] He submitted graphic radio dispatches that were printed in many newspapers and won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1930 citing the 1929 portion of that work.
[4] He also appeared in the documentary film With Byrd at the South Pole (Paramount, 1930).