Robert William Greene, Sr. (July 12, 1929 – April 10, 2008) was a pioneering investigative journalist, who uncovered corruption in Arizona after a journalist, Don Bolles, was murdered there and twice helped Newsday win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
[2] He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1970, for exposing land scandals on Long Island.
Greene was most famous for his investigative work in what became known as the Arizona Project.
Greene was a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors, a national organization he helped start.
[1][2] Robert Greene Jr. said one of his father's last wishes was to see a journalism boot camp for high school journalists established at Stony Brook University, where the award-winning journalist had most recently been teaching courses, and in 2009, Stony Brook established the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.