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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 4/10/2008 7:04:35 PM
Title: Newsday editor's memo regarding Bob Greene
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Memo to Newsday's staff

Date: April 10, 2008
To: Staff
From: John Mancini

Bob Greene, whose pioneering work as an investigative reporter and editor for Newsday changed how newspapers uncovered public corruption, died around 4 p.m. today. He was 78.

Bob was a big-story guy whose zeal to right wrongs was larger than life. He worked at Newsday from 1955 to 1992, a time of explosive, formative growth for the paper and Long Island. He was always at the center of what has made the paper great.

Bob created a lasting legacy here by elevating the exposure of fraud, waste and malfeasance to high art. The demanding, methodical approach he introduced to gathering of records and to the painstaking accumulation of evidence became a nationwide standard.

His teams twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, in 1970 for exposing land scandals in Suffolk and in 1974 for the epic "Heroin Trail" series that tracked the drug from Turkish poppy fields to the streets of Long Island.

In 1976, Bob formed an all-star team of reporters and editors from across the country for the Arizona Project, which gathered the nation’s best to investigate the murder of Don Bolles, a fellow founder of the groundbreaking Investigative Reporters and Editors organization.
Bob Greene left his mark on Newsday, on Long Island and on life. As Tony Marro told us for the obituary Steve Wick and Melanie Lefkowitz have composed for tomorrow’s paper, the investigative team "remains his most important legacy, because he used it to help develop a culture in which public service journalism and investigative reporting became part of the newspaper’s core mission."

Our condolences and prayers go to Bob’s wife, Kathleen, and their son, Robert Jr.

We’ll keep you posted on funeral arrangements. Word is that Bob had a few ideas the proceedings that he wanted folks to pursue.

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