Tony Russell Email & Phone Number

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

In 2019 I started my own digital media services company. I currently work with news and corporate clients to scale quick-turn social media content videos for all platforms.

United States

As a field correspondent, I'm dispatched across the country covering tornado outbreaks in Oklahoma to hurricanes impacting the United States. I'm using my decade of local TV news experience to tell the weather story, inform viewers and potentially save lives.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Worked as the newsroom's senior nightside reporter at the Tulsa CBS affiliate KOTV.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

I reported for 40/29 News, the ABC affiliate in Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith. I was based in the Fort Smith newsroom covering an eight county area.

While attending college at Ole Miss, I worked for CBS Sports, Comcast Sports South and ESPN. I was contracted to work on various sporting venues as a stage manager, utility or runner.

Worked under the assistant athletic director for media production at Ole Miss. I logged tape, interviewed coaches and players. I also ran camera for live for streaming, web and house outlets during sporting events.

Oxford, Mississippi

During my senior year, I oversaw all the operations of a live weekly production of a roundtable sports talk show called "The Sports Whip".

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Area

I worked in a hybrid role at Raycom's new TV station as a newscast editor.

I spent the summer weekends working with the producers of "CBS Evening News" at the CBS Washington Bureau. I also shadowed CBS Radio National Correspondent Dan Raviv.

Newsroom Intern at CBS Radio Affiliate KMOX-AM 1120 in Saint Louis, Missouri

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I worked with the DC Booking Unit as a guest greeter and shadowed Capitol Hill Producer Chad Pergram.

Clayton, Mo

I was an American Red Cross certified lifeguard for the City of Clayton Parks and Recreation Department. I worked in the aquatics center at the Center of Clayton and Shaw Park Pool.

B.A., Journalism

Activities and Societies: S. Gale Denley Student Media Center, University of Mississippi Amateur Radio Club (W5UMS), Beta Theta Pi.

The Fund For American Studies Institute On Political Journalism

Attended the Summer 2008 Institute for Political Journalism sponsored by The Fund for American Studies (TFAS).