Ronnie Greene

Senior Editor

Ronnie Greene joined ProPublica in 2024 as a senior editor in Washington. He spent much of his career as an investigative journalist with the Miami Herald. Since moving to Washington in 2011, he has served roles including Washington enterprise editor for Reuters and investigative reporter and editor for the Center for Public Integrity.

At CPI, Greene edited “Breathless and Burdened,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation exposing how legal and medical forces blocked coal miners from receiving health benefits. At the Herald, he was an editor for “Neglected to Death,” a series named a Pulitzer finalist for public service. His other honors include an Emmy Award, the Harvard Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and two Silver Gavel Awards. At the Herald, he was part of two reporting teams awarded the Pulitzer and another named a Pulitzer finalist.

Greene earned a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University and a journalism degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches graduate writing at Johns Hopkins and is the author of three books. One, “Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-up in the Wake of Katrina,” earned the Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award.

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