Bill Green, Washington Post Ombudsman, Dies at 91

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Bill Green, a journalist and university official who spent one momentous year as ombudsman of The Washington Post, where he conducted an investigation into a story by reporter Janet Cooke about an 8-year-old heroin addict that won a Pulitzer Prize before it was exposed as a fraud, died March 28 at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 91.

The cause was complications from surgery, said a daughter, Audrey Green.

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