Jim Russell
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Jim Russell is an award-winning journalist, producer and executive who has created successful national programs for all three public radio networks: National Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media, as well as for PBS. His experience encompasses more than thirty years, in commercial radio, print, public radio, and television. Programs he has invented include Marketplace[1] and Weekend America and public tv’s Newton’s Apple, NightTimes, Electronicle and America After Vietnam. He also helped develop NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and PRI’s The World. Jim has won every major award in broadcasting.
Jim is now the President of his own consulting company, Jim Russell Productions[2].
James Newton Russell AM MBE (March 26, 1909 – August 15, 2001) was an Australian cartoonist who drew The Potts for 62 years. Jim's brother Dan Russell was also a cartoonist.
Russell was born in Campsie, New South Wales.
The Australian Cartoonist's Association Silver Stanley Award is now known as the Jim Russell Award and is awarded to a cartoonist for services to the cartooning industry.
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- ACE biographical portraits: the artists behind the comic book characters: the Australian comic book exhibition, Australian comics 1930s-1990s, touring Australia during 1995/96 / edited by Annette Shiell and Ingrid Unger (1994, ISBN 0-7326-0829-5)
- The Potts and Uncle Dick / by Jim Russell
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