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(Mark Russell is donating 1 1/2 hours to the winning bidder),

Mark Russell, assistant managing editor/metro at The Plain Dealer since August 1999, directs the metro staff of about 100 reporters, editors and support staffers. Before becoming metropolitan editor, he was business editor of The Plain Dealer for four years. He led a staff of 25, including 14 reporters, in covering business news in Northeast Ohio.

Russell, 41, rejoined The Plain Dealer after working two years as an assistant metropolitan editor at The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe in 1993, Russell was an assistant city editor at The Plain Dealer, supervising reporters covering Cleveland City Hall, Cuyahoga County government and general news stories. He initially joined The Plain Dealer in 1987 as a business reporter covering retailing and later moved to the city desk to cover City Hall and the 1989 Cleveland mayoral election.

From 1984 to 1987, Russell covered the Cleveland-Pittsburgh area for The Wall Street Journal. In addition to general business assignments, he covered banking, labor and aluminum and steel manufacturing.

A native of St. Louis, Russell received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia. He currently serves on the UMC journalism school's board of directors, the Missourian Press Association. Russell is a frequent speaker at middle and high school events. For two years, he has served as a speaker/mentor at Kent State University's Dow Jones Newspaper Fund high school workshop for minorities. He was a student in such a program in St. Louis in the late '70s, and founded the Cleveland NABJ high school journalism workshop in '88. That program is now in its 15th year. Dozens of its graduates are now working journalists. He has also volunteered to mentor student-journalists at the ASNE and APME conventions.

For five years until the program took a break in 2002, Russell was an organizer of The Plain Dealer's high school journalism workshop, modeled after the Dow Jones program. He now is the director of the Plain Dealer high school workshop, which restarted in the winter of 2004.

Russell and his wife, Christina, who has a home-based gift-basket service, have a 14-year-old son, Mark Jr., and a 10-year-old daughter, Alexandra.

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(Mark Russell is donating 1 1/2 hours to the winning bidder),

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