White is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for his work for The Wall Street Journal.
[1][2] White and Detroit bureau chief Paul Ingrassia earned the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for often exclusive coverage of General Motors' management turmoil.
"[1] [3] Their reporting also earned a 1993 Gerald Loeb Award for "Deadline and/or Beat Writing",[4][5][2] and they turned it into a book, "Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry," in 1994.
[1] White moved to Brussels in 1994 to become the news editor and chief of correspondents for The Wall Street Journal Europe.
[1] He worked in the Washington, D.C. bureau from 2008 to 2011 covering business regulation and energy policy, and then returned to Detroit to become the Global Auto Editor.