Early Career
Green graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in English; in 1991 he joined Ziff Davis Press, a subsidiary of Ziff Davis Media which published computer books. Later, he moved to the weekly Macintosh trade journal MacWEEK as a reviews editor. While getting the opportunity to write professionally, the magazine's subject matter was "frankly didn't give much of a shit about." At the time, MacWEEK was published by Ziff Davis Media, which also ran the monthly video game magazine Computer Gaming World. Green "begged, cajoled, whined, and threatened" editor-in-chief Johnny Wilson to give him the opening for Associate Editor that arose for the magazine in 1996. He got the job, although was forced to take a cut on his salary to make the move, which he considers "totally worth it."
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