Mike White is a New Zealand investigative journalist, photographer and author, and former foreign correspondent (Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq), and dog lover.

White has won New Zealand Feature Writer of the Year (Qantas / Canon / Voyager Media Awards) four times, and a Wolfson Fellowship to the University of Cambridge.

[3][5] In 2003 White returned to New Zealand to write full-time for North & South, a current affairs monthly magazine, becoming a senior staff writer.

[9] Writing for North & South and then for Stuff (website), White has focussed most of his attention on high profile convictions that have eventually been declared miscarriages of justice.

[16] In November 2016, after again taking the Corrections Department to the High Court, he covered the first meeting between Scott Watson and Olivia's father, Gerald Hope, also held in Rolleston Prison.

[22] [8] In Justice at last on Stuff in 2020, he described the establishment of the Criminal Cases Review Commission by the Labour Government, and the resistance of previous administrations to set up such a body.

He noted that historically, very few high-profile cases have been prosecuted in new Zealand without a 'snitch' testifing in court that the accused had confessed to them while they were in prison; it was a contributing factor in the murder trials of Arthur Allan Thomas, Mark Lundy, Scott Watson, Teina Pora and David Tamihere.

[25] By testifying against a fellow prisoner, the police may offer a 'snitch' potential benefits such a reduced jail sentence, a letter of support to the judge or the Parole Board, and even financial rewards up to $50,000 - plus name suppression.