Russ Walker Email & Phone Number

I lead the watchdog team at LNP | LancasterOnline, a daily newspaper and digital outlet in Lancaster, Pa. The reporters I manage cover local government, the Legislature, crime/courts and anti-democratic movements in one of the state's fastest-growing counties. The deputy watchdog editor and I also supervise a small team of breaking news reporters.LNP | LancasterOnline's preceding titles date back to the 18th century.The Steinman family owned the company for nearly 160 years before… Show more I lead the watchdog team at LNP | LancasterOnline, a daily newspaper and digital outlet in Lancaster, Pa. The reporters I manage cover local government, the Legislature, crime/courts and anti-democratic movements in one of the state's fastest-growing counties. The deputy watchdog editor and I also supervise a small team of breaking news reporters.LNP | LancasterOnline's preceding titles date back to the 18th century.The Steinman family owned the company for nearly 160 years before donating it to WITF, the public media company serving much of central Pennsylvania. Show less

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

The mission of PA Post was to connect Pennsylvanians to their state, and each other, with accountability and deep-dive reporting. This experiment in public journalism, hosted by WITF in Harrisburg, was merged into Spotlight PA in August 2020, in part because of the pandemic's negative effect on fundraising, but also because it made sense to bring together two quality news organizations under one umbrella.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Managed team of three full-time reporters and a photojournalist who produce investigative reports for Seattle's leading television station.

Greater Seattle Area

Worked with a great team of producers to program KING5.com, the website of Seattle's NBC affiliate. Original web content was major focus of the team, in addition to promoting KING 5's on-air newscasts.

Project lead on POLITICO's launch of a new section to cover the 2012 presidential election.

Helped with content alliances with other established media and developed plan for displaying 2010 election returns and ballots online.

Grist is a nonprofit news and commentary website devoted to issues surrounding the environment and sustainability.

Managed a staff of web producers, reporters and bloggers covering a wide range of content verticals. Editorial manager of washingtonpost.com's 2006, 2007 and 2008 political coverage.

Managed a 10-person staff that built a video-on-demand site from scratch for the 2000 election year. Our team flew around the country to create scores of videos of candidates talking directly to voters about issues.

There was a 12-month interlude (Aug. 1996 to Aug. 1997) where I was living in Alabama and not working for N.J.

I worked for nearly two years as the press secretary for a first (and only) term congressman from Kentucky. I made a lot of mistakes and learned quite a bit, especially that I'm not cut out for working in politics. Barlow lost in the 1994 GOP wave. I moved on to a much more fulfilling career in journalism.

A small non-profit dedicated to building alliances and collaboration among the many players in the health care world. Its primary clients were voluntary health associations like the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association. My job was newsletter writing, research and general public affairs support and back-up. The organization's primary focus was advocating for increases in medical research funding.

I started as an intern on the same day that bombing began in the first Persian Gulf war. After months of sorting mail and doing data entry, I moved into a legislative correspondent position in the summer, where I answered constituent mail on a grab-bag of issues, from health care to defense policy to Social Security. Reid was a first-term senator at the time, though even then I could see the shrewdness that would ultimately make him Majority Leader.