Russell Owen 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

Pulitzer Prize for Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Reporting was awarded from 1917 to 1947.-Winners:*1917: Herbert Bayard Swope, New York World, for articles which appeared October 10, October 15 and from November 4 daily to November 22, 1916, inclusive, entitled, "Inside the German Empire."*1918: Harold A...

for these efforts. In 1934 he published a book about the expedition, entitled "South of the Sun" (ISBN 978-1432577667).