Ronnie Greene

Senior Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity

Greene joined the Center in 2011 after serving as The Miami Herald’s investigations and government editor. He led Center investigations into contracts and connections at the Department of Energy, was part of the reporting team for Poisoned Places, and edited Mystery in the Fields, a series exposing rare kidney deaths among laborers across the globe. His Center investigations have been honored by the Harvard University Goldsmith Prize, Columbia University John B. Oakes Awards, Sigma Delta Chi, Gerald Loeb and Emmy awards. At The Miami Herald, Greene was lead editor for Neglected To Death, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist investigation exposing abuses in Florida group homes. He was part of four Herald reporting teams awarded the Pulitzer Prize (twice) or named finalists (twice), and spent nine years on the paper’s investigative staff, exposing slave-like conditions in Florida’s farm fields, investigating deadly air cargo plane crashes and uncovering corruption. A journalism graduate of VCU, Greene taught graduate journalism at the University of Miami and is pursuing a Masters in Nonfiction Writing at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard’s Fight To Save Her Town

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