Longtime auto journalist White retires

Joe White

Joe White, the global automotive correspondent for Reuters, has retired.

He has been in that role since January 2022 writing the Auto File newsletter and about the auto and transportation industries. White joined Reuters in January 2015 as the transportation editor leading coverage of planes, trains and automobiles, and later became global automotive editor.

Prior to joining Reuters, he worked for more than 20 years as a reporter, global automotive editor and bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, where he worked across Detroit, Brussels and Washington, D.C. He also served as a news editor and management reporter.

White is co-author (with Paul Ingrassia) of “Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry,” and he and Ingrassia shared the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1993.

He has also reported for Connecticut Law Tribune/American Lawyer, St. Petersburg Times and The Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, Massachusetts.

White is a Harvard University graduate.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.