April 21 at 5:30 PM at the Hope Room in the Higgins Welcome Center and live on YouTube.
Directions: Parking is available in Lot 1 (Briar Lane Lot) behind the Higgins Welcome Center. Please use 75 Briar Lane, Kingston, RI 02881, in your GPS, which will take you directly to this lot. Enter campus via URI’s main entrance onto Upper College Rd (off Route 138). Take a right at the first stop sign onto Briar Lane, and proceed down the road. The entrance to the lot is on the left. Here’s a link to our campus map.
Tim White is the managing editor and chief investigative reporter at WPRI-TV (CBS 12) in Providence, Rhode Island, where he leads the Target 12 investigative unit. He is also the executive producer and host of Newsmakers, the station’s long-running weekly current affairs program, and plays a key role in WPRI’s election coverage, having moderated numerous live candidate debates.
Tim is the recipient of seven New England Emmy Awards, including five for investigative reporting, and eight regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, including five for investigative reporting. His award-winning work has held power to account, uncovered public corruption, and driven meaningful change—including criminal convictions of public officials, the resignation of a police chief, and new scrutiny of government programs.
He is a graduate of Roger Williams University School of Law, where he earned a Master of Studies in Law degree summa cum laude in 2022. Tim teaches as an adjunct professor at Roger Williams University, where his courses include Media Law & Ethics and Broadcast News.
Tim is the co-author of “The Last Good Heist,” the untold story of a daring 1975 robbery of a secret vault of safe deposit boxes used by members of the New England mob and their associates. He also produced “The Last Don of Providence,” a four-part investigative docuseries on organized crime in New England.
Prior to joining WPRI, Tim worked in the Boston as managing editor at WBZ-TV, the city’s CBS affiliate, where he helped coordinate coverage of the 9/11 terror attacks, led the station’s political unit, and was part of teams honored with a National Edward R. Murrow Award. He was a longtime board member and current advisor of the New England First Amendment Coalition, an organization dedicated to defending and expanding public access to government.
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Tim is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the son of the late Jack White, the Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter. He lives in Rhode Island with his family.
Jim Taricani, H’18, the husband of Laurie White, ’81, was a veteran Rhode Island journalist and nationally respected investigative reporter for nearly four decades with WJAR-TV and a valued member of the URI family. Shortly after he passed away in 2019, Jim’s family announced the creation of the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights to honor his memory and his work. As a champion of the news media’s First Amendment rights, Jim was dedicated to protecting those rights, which he saw as critically important to society.
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