Dick Russ

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Dick Russ

Channel 3 News Reporter/Anchor

E-mail: dickruss@wkyc.com

Dick Russ has been reporting the news to the people of Northeast Ohio for more than 30 years. He currently holds the position of Managing Editor and News Anchor on Cleveland's NBC affiliate, WKYC-TV, Channel 3.

Before coming to Channel 3 in 1999, Dick spent 20 years at WJW-TV in Cleveland, where he hosted the Noon News. In the 1970's he worked at a number of TV and radio stations, including Channel 23 in Akron.

His professional honors include membership in the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and the prestigious Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), recognizing more than a quarter century of exemplary service to the television industry.

Dick is a ten-time winner of the regional Emmy Award, and a two-time honoree by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists as the state's outstanding television documentarian. He has also been honored with the Gabriel Award, the highest national award for religious TV programming, and is a recipient of the Religious Communicators Council's national award, also for religious TV programming.

He and his wife Chris reside in Brecksville, and have three sons.