The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

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.