Russell Brown (born 1962) is a well-known New Zealand media commentator, and the owner of the Public Address[1] community of blogs, and writes Hard News[2] Hard News the blog is based on the Hard News radio slot spoken by Brown from 1991 to 2002 on bFM, an Auckland student radio station. The text of the radio commentary was circulated on the Internet by various means from 1993, and the bulletin officially became a blog with the launch of Public Address in November 2002.
He also presents the media commentary programme Media7 on the TVNZ 7 digital channel.
Brown was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, and now lives in Auckland, with his long-term partner, journalist Fiona Rae, and their two sons.