Russell Owen
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Russell Owen (1889 - 1952) was a U.S. journalist employed by the New York Times.
Owen was a member of the First Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928-1930 from which he submitted graphic radio dispatches. In 1930 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for these efforts, and appeared in the documentary film With Byrd at the South Pole. In 1934 he published a book about the expedition, entitled South of the Sun (ISBN 978-1432577667).
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