Career
Russell"s experience encompasses more than thirty years, in commercial radio, print, public radio, and television Programs he has helped create include Marketplace, Weekend America, and public television’s Newton’s Apple, NightTimes, Electronicle and America After Vietnam. He also helped develop National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and Institutional Revolutionary Party’s The World.
Russell was a 1973–1974 National Endowment for Humanities Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Russell is now the president of his own consulting company, Jim Russell Productions—The Program Doctor.