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Newsday | Romenesko Memos
Bob Greene, a pioneering investigative reporter and editor who helped Newsday twice win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 78. "His doggedness in pursuit of hidden information inspires reporters here at Newsday, and across the country, to this day," says Newsday editor John Mancini. "Bob was a reporter, a teacher and a skilled tactician whose investigative zeal changed laws, exposed wrongs and improved the lives of millions of Long Islanders." || Read the editor's memo and Newsday's editorial.
> He taught journalists how to investigate corruption with a flourish (CJR)