Robert Greene, co-founder of Investigative Reporters and Editors, dies

From NYTimes, April 12, 2008:

Robert W. Greene, a reporter and editor at Newsday who led investigative teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes and brought together reporters from across the country to uncover corruption in Arizona after a journalist there was murdered, died Thursday in Smithtown, N.Y. He was 78.

The cause was heart failure, his wife, Kathleen, said.

The Pulitzers notwithstanding, Mr. Greene regarded what became known as the Arizona Project as the greatest achievement of his 37-year career at Newsday, Long Island’s dominant newspaper.

The project began after Don Bolles, a reporter for The Arizona Republic who had been investigating ties between organized crime and politicians, was killed by a car bomb on June 13, 1976. Mr. Bolles had been a founding member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a national organization that Mr. Greene had helped start.

Mr. Greene assembled a team from that organization, and they spent six months in Phoenix putting together a 23-part series that expanded the investigation that Mr. Bolles had begun; it ran in newspapers around the country.

I've not heard of the Arizona affair, but sounds worth looking into (if anyone has sources to recommend).