Jack White (reporter)
Jack White (1942 – October 12, 2005) was an American journalist. He won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for his coverage of President Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes.[1] White's investigative article prompted Nixon to utter his famous line, "I am not a crook" to White's colleague Joseph Ungaro at a newspaper editors' conference in Florida.[2] White also won Emmy Awards for his reporting on fugitive banker Joe Mollicone and Providence tax officials who violated the city's residency requirement. On his death, the Cape Cod Times called him "the dean of Rhode Island journalism."[3]
Transition to television[edit]
White made the transition to television in 1979, when he joined the investigative team at WBZ-TV in Boston. He worked as a reporter and columnist for the Cape Cod Times from 1981 to 1984 before joining WPRI-TV in Rhode Island as chief investigative reporter in 1985.[3]
RINPR called him "the dean of investigative reporters in Rhode Island", citing a 2001 example when former Providence mayor Buddy Cianci said he learned about his own indictment when Jack White reported on it.[7]
Personal life[edit]
White was married and had four children.[3] He died in 2005 at Cape Cod Hospital in Barnstable, Massachusetts at the age of 63.
White's son, Tim White, succeeded him as the chief investigative reporter at WPRI-TV in 2006.