Greg Dobbs worked for ABC News for 23 years, starting in Chicago as an editor for ABC Radio's Paul Harvey, then for TV as a producer, then in 1973 becoming a correspondent. Dobbs was assigned to ABC's bureau in London in 1977, was moved to Paris in 1982, and joined ABC's Denver bureau in 1986. He retired from ABC in 1992.

During his network career, Dobbs covered the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the San Francisco earthquake, the execution of Gary Gilmore, the Watergate hearings, the Indian occupation of Wounded Knee, and various political campaigns and presidential conventions.

As a foreign correspondent he covered the Gulf War; the revolution and then the occupation of the U.S. embassy in Iran; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt; the civil war in and the ejection of the PLO from Beirut; the Iran-Iraq war; the rise of the Solidarity trade union and imposition of martial law in Poland; the evolution of leadership in the Soviet Union; the civil war and deaths of IRA hunger-strikers in Northern Ireland; the civil war in Rhodesia; the American bombing of Libya; the ouster of Idi Amin from Uganda; the assassination of Anwar Sadat in Egypt; the deaths of popes; and last and least, the ill-fated royal wedding of Charles and Diana in England.

The winner of two national Emmy awards, Dobbs also won the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1981. At Denver's KOA Radio as a talk show host, he twice won the Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence for "Best Public Affairs" and "News/Info" Program.

Since 2003 Dobbs has been the host of "Colorado State of Mind" on Rocky Mountain PBS. He has also reported and produced stories for National Geographic Television and several documentaries. Dobbs has written opinion columns for The Denver Post for six years, and from early 2001 for the Rocky Mountain News (originally a biweekly critique of the performance of the serious news media) until beginning radio talk show in 2003). He also writes for the Canyon Courier (Evergreen, Colorado) and in 1999, helped found and continues to serve as executive editor of an online magazine, "BoomerCafé" (www.boomercafe.com).

A prolific journalist, Dobbs has also taught newswriting for upperclassmen majoring in journalism and investigative journalism for master's candidate students at the University of Colorado's School of Journalism and Mass Communications since 1995. In 2001 he was named Adjunct Professor of the Year. His university-level textbook Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News was published by Pearson Education.