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'''Russell John Carollo''' (March 16, 1955 – December 19, 2018) was a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[United States|American]] [[journalist]].
Reared in Lacombe in St. Tammany Parish in [[suburban]], [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], Carollo obtained degrees in journalism from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]] and in [[history]] from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. He began his career at ''The Daily Times'' in Slidell, also in St. Tammany Parish and worked as a reporter for ''The Texarkana Gazette'', owned by the Hussman family of Camden, [[Arkansas]]. He then was employed at ''The Clarion Ledger'' in [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]] and ''The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, [[Washington]]. He then settled into a long-term assignment with ''the Dayton Daily News'' in Dayton, [[Ohio]]. He was nominated as a Pulitzer finalist four times. While in Dayton, he also won the Goldsmith Award from [[Harvard University]], two White House Correspondents' Association and six awards for reporting and editing. His investigations included the illegal recruitment of foreign athletes to American schools and the dangers that [[Peace Corps]] volunteers face in their work. He filed a large number of [[Freedom of Information]] requests and often spotted details in the records which other reporters had missed. Near the end of his career, he was on the staffs of ''The Sacramento Bee'' in [[Sacramento]], [[California]], and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in [[Los Angeles]], California. His work overall was considered painstakingly accurate.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=russell-carollo&pid=191567353|title=Russell Carollo obituary|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayne''|date=February 17, 2019|accessdate=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
He traveled to some twenty countries and died in [[Switzerland]] at the age of sixty-three. He was one of four children of Victor and Norma Carollo. His survivors included his son, Brett, and a daughter, Tonya, and four grandchildren, and three siblings, Vickie, Laura, and Frankie.<ref name=obit/>
Reared in Lacombe in St. Tammany Parish in [[suburban]], [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], Carollo obtained degrees in journalism from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]] and in [[history]] from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. He began his career at ''The Daily Times'' in Slidell, also in St. Tammany Parish and worked as a reporter for ''The Texarkana Gazette'', owned by the Hussman family of Camden, [[Arkansas]]. He then was employed at ''The Clarion Ledger'' in [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]] and ''The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, [[Washington]]. He then settled into a long-term assignment with ''the Dayton Daily News'' in Dayton, [[Ohio]]. He was nominated as a Pulitzer finalist four times. While in Dayton, he also won the Goldsmith Award from [[Harvard University]], two White House Correspondents' Association and six awards for reporting and editing. His investigations included the illegal recruitment of foreign athletes to American schools and the dangers that [[Peace Corps]] volunteers face in their work. He filed a large number of [[Freedom of Information]] requests and often spotted details in the records which other reporters had missed. Near the end of his career, he was on the staffs of ''The Sacramento Bee'' in [[Sacramento]], [[California]], and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in [[Los Angeles]], California. His work overall was considered painstakingly accurate.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=russell-carollo&pid=191567353|title=Russell Carollo obituary|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayne''|date=February 17, 2019|accessdate=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
He traveled to some twenty countries and died in [[Switzerland]] at the age of sixty-three. He was one of four children of Victor and Norma Carollo. His survivors included his son, Brett, and a daughter, Tonya, and four grandchildren, and three siblings, Vickie, Laura, and Frankie.<ref name=obit/>