Investigative Reporter & Managing Editor
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Tim White is an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning investigative reporter and managing editor at WPRI 12 in Providence, Rhode Island. Since joining the Target 12 investigative team in 2006, he has built a reputation for holding the powerful accountable — from government waste and police misconduct to pension fraud and public corruption.
Tim is also the executive producer and host of Newsmakers, WPRI 12's long-running weekly current affairs program, and has moderated numerous live candidate debates across Rhode Island.
Prior to WPRI, Tim served as managing editor at WBZ-TV in Boston, where he ran the station's political unit and earned multiple Associated Press and National Edward R. Murrow Awards.
A graduate of UMass Amherst, Tim also holds a Master of Law degree from Roger Williams University School of Law. He serves as an adjunct professor at Roger Williams University and was a longtime board member of the New England First Amendment Coalition.
Tim is the executive producer and host of Newsmakers, WPRI 12's long-running weekly current affairs program. Each week, the show features in-depth interviews with Rhode Island's top newsmakers — from elected officials and policy leaders to community voices driving the conversation.
Tim has also moderated many of the state's highest-profile live candidate debates, earning recognition from The Washington Post as one of Rhode Island's top political reporters.
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Tim was the featured speaker for the Taricani Visiting Journalist Series at the University of Rhode Island's Harrington School of Communication and Media — a lecture series honoring the late Jim Taricani, a veteran Rhode Island journalist and nationally respected investigative reporter who dedicated his career to protecting First Amendment rights.
In his address, Tim spoke about the critical role local investigative journalism plays in holding power accountable and why defending a free press has never been more important.
Tim is the co-author of The Last Good Heist, which chronicles one of the most daring and audacious robberies in American history — a brazen heist that looted millions from a secret vault tied to organized crime in Providence, Rhode Island.
The book weaves together crime, corruption, and the colorful underworld of 1970s New England in a story that reads like fiction but is entirely true.
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