Joseph B. White is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for his work for The Wall Street Journal.

White was born in New York City. He attended Harvard University and graduated with a B.A. in English.^[1]

White started his career at the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, Massachusetts.^[1]

In 1982, White moved to the St. Petersburg Times.^[1]

White joined the Hartford bureau of the Connecticut Law Tribune in 1986.^[1]

In 1987, White joined the Detroit bureau of The Wall Street Journal, and became the bureau chief in 1990.^[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 returned the Detroit bureau in 1996 as a news editor covering Columbia-HCA Healthcare and auto industry management issues, and again became the bureau chief in 1998.^[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.^[1]