The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

He also wrote the "American Beat" column in Esquire. The movie Funny About Love (1990) was based on a Greene column. In it he wistfully chronicles his days as a copyboy and other apprentice positions at the Columbus Citizen-Journal and the Columbus Dispatch.

S. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper where he was an award-winning columnist. presidents.