Tim White, son of the late Jack White, a former investigative reporter for Channel 12 (WPRI-TV) who died last year at age 63, is picking up where his father left off. Tim White is the new investigative reporter at the station. He starts in September.

For the past decade, White has worked in Boston at WBZ-TV. Most recently he has worked as the station's general manager, during which time it has won two Associated Press awards for breaking news, and also national recognition, the Edward R. Murrow Award, for its coverage of last spring's flooding in New Hampshire.

"This is such a unique opportunity for me . . . to pick up where my father left off and continue with his hard work and dedication to covering the area," White said. "I always felt bad for the person who was going to fill my father's shoes."

In his 37-year journalism career, Jack White won many awards, including a 1974 Pulitzer Prize for reporting that President Nixon paid a pittance in federal income taxes for two consecutive years. White broke the story while a reporter for The Providence Journal, where he worked before taking up television reporting.

Tim White was born in Newport and received his bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Massachusetts. He and his wife, Melissa, are expecting their first child in September.