PERSON: Russ Buettner

Reporter

Russ Buettner is an investigative reporter for The New York Times’s Metro Desk. He has been reporting on the New York City region since 1992. He joined the The Times in 2006 after working on investigations teams at the New York Daily News and New York Newsday.

In 2012, he and colleague Danny Hakim were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles highlighting abuse, neglect and deadly mistakes in New York’s system of caring for developmentally disabled people.

He graduated from California State University, Sacramento, and attended the University of Missouri Graduate School of Journalism.

— nytimes.com