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KAREN RUSSO
ABC News Reporter
Karen Russo is an ABC News reporter based in Mumbai, India. In this role she contributes on- and off-air reporting to all ABC News broadcasts, ABC News Radio and ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service, and also regularly files for ABC News’ digital platforms, including ABCNEWS.com, ABC News Now and ABC News’ webcasts.
Most recently Russo was a field producer for “Nightline,” where she produced a wide-range of stories, including breaking news, celebrity profiles and pieces for the “You Are What You Eat” series. She also produced reports for the ABC News foster care special, “A Call to Action: Saving Our Children,” which received the Robert F. Kennedy and Cine Awards.
In 2006 Russo received a Rosalyn Carter Mental Health Care Fellowship to report on mental health care programs in Ethiopia.
Russo joined ABC News in 2003 as an associate producer at “Primetime.” There she helped produce an hour-long special about the Brazilian spiritual healer, “João de Deus.” In 2005 she traveled to Banda Aceh, Indonesia to shoot and produce a story about an American woman building earthquake-resistant homes for tsunami survivors.
Before joining ABC News, Russo was a print journalist and wrote for several publications including the Associated Press, The Boston Globe and The Vineyard Gazette.
Raised in Southborough, Massachusetts, Russo received a B.A. from Smith College and a M.S. from The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.