Pulitzer winner White becomes transportation editor at Reuters

Joe White, who left The Wall Street Journal earlier this year, has become transportation editor for Reuters.

White had worked at the Journal for 27 years, most recently as a senior editor. He previously was global auto editor, based in the Detroit bureau.

White joined the Journal in July 1987 as a reporter in Detroit and became deputy bureau chief in July 1990. He moved to Brussels in August 1994 as news editor and chief of correspondents for The Wall Street Journal Europe. In August 1996, he returned to the domestic Journal’s Detroit bureau as a news editor. His responsibilities included the Journal’s coverage of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., and he also wrote about management issues and the auto industry.

In November 1998, he was named bureau chief in Detroit. From 2008 to 2011, White worked in the Journal’s Washington, D.C. bureau as an editor overseeing coverage of business regulation and energy policy.

In 1993, White and then Detroit bureau chief Paul Ingrassia were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for their 1992 coverage of the management turmoil at General Motors Corp. They also received a 1993 Gerald Loeb Award in the deadline/beat writing category for their General Motors coverage.

White began his journalism career as a reporter with the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, Mass. He joined the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times as a reporter in 1982 and moved to the Connecticut Law Tribune as a reporter in the Hartford bureau in 1986.