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Russell Carollo (born 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist who has worked as an investigative reporter for the Dayton Dayton News, Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee. He won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting at the Dayton Daily News for uncovering mismanagement in military healthcare.
Life
Carollo is a native of suburban New Orleans. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in journalism, and he also graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a degree in history.
Carollo currently works as a freelance journalist and consultant based out of Colorado, and his specialties include computer-assisted reporting, FOIA, public records, the military and long-term investigative projects.
He’s been a Pulitzer finalist four times, most recently in 2002. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Carollo has won numerous other national awards, including Harvard University’s Goldsmith Award, two White House Correspondent’s Association awards and six Investigative Reporters & Editors awards. Three awards were personally presented to him by U.S. presidents(George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford). During his 30-year career, Carollo reported from at least 17 countries. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Southeastern Louisiana University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University, which inducted him into its Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009. He also is a former Michigan Journalism Fellow. Carollo worked as a special projects reporter for the Dayton Daily News, Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times, and he’s taught journalism at Colorado College and Oklahoma State University.
He currently is a consultant, retrieving public records (including databases) through FOIA and state public records laws, analyzing data and doing other research for clients, who include media. Children: Brett and Tonya Carollo
References
External links
- "Q&A with a FOIA requester", Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- FDIC refuses to release employee travel records, Junket Sleuth
- http://www.businessinsider.com/author/russell-carollo
- LSU Hall of Fame Inductee Russel Carollo