JACK E. WHITE

National Correspondent
TIME Magazine
Washington, D.C.

Jack E. White, the author of the column Dividing Line , is a National Correspondent based in Washington, DC for TIME Magazine.

Before moving to Washington in 1994, White was a senior correspondent in the New York Bureau. He had previously served as TIME's Nation Editor, a post he held from July, 1990 to July , 1992 when he left TIME to become Senior Producer for domestic news for ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. He returned to TIME in April, 1993. He was the first African American journalist to hold either of those positions, and is also the first black journalist to become a columnist for TIME.

Beginning in May 1995, he has also been assigned by TIME Inc.'s Editor-in- chief Normal Pearlstine to organize an effort to recruit minority journalists for all of Time Inc.'s magazines, which include TIME, People, Sports Illustrated, Life, Fortune, Money, SI For Kids, In Style and Martha Stewart's Living.

White joined TIME in 1972 as a staff writer contributing to the Modern Living, Economy & Business and Energy sections. In 1974 he was assigned to the Atlanta bureau as a correspondent, then to the Boston bureau in 1977. He returned to New York in 1978 as a staff writer in the World section. He became Nairobi bureau chief in 1980, then moved to the New York bureau in May 1982. In 1984 he covered the presidential campaign for TIME and was a member of the panel of journalists at the 1984 vice presidential debate between George Bush and Geraldine Ferraro. He was TIME's Midwest bureau chief, based in Chicago, from 1985 to 1987.

White was named deputy chief of correspondents for TIME in June of 1987, with responsibility for supervising 51 correspondents in the magazine's ten domestic bureaus across the U.S.

Before joining the staff at TIME, White reported for Tennessee's Race Relations Reporter (1969-1972) and had been a general assignment reporter for the Washington Post (1966-1968). He has written free-lance articles for the Columbia Journalism Review, the Progressive, Ebony Magazine and Black Enterprise.

White was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard (1976-1977) with concentration on African affairs and American ethnic politics. He is married to Cassandra Clayton, a correspondent for NBC News, and is the father of four children.