Joseph Williams Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

White House policy reporter covering cabinet agencies, domestic issues and the intersection between race and politics. Contributing analyst for MSNBC, "Washington Watch with Roland Martin" on TV One and "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on Current TV, among others. Washington bureau chief for “The Jeff Santos Show,” a Boston-based talk radio program.

Duties include assigning and editing breaking news and enterprise stories on the Obama administration for Politico's daily paper and web site, supervising a team of five reporters.

Political and pop culture writer with bylines in publications ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Essence magazine. Topics include race and politics, suicide among African American men and personal essays on romance and dating.

Led a seven-reporter bureau including White House and Capitol Hill reporting. Active involvement in editing the package of stories that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Traveled with Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, produced spot-news and enterprise stories during the primaries, helped cover the Republican and Democratic national conventions, and covered Pres. Obama’s administration’s urban agenda.Reported or edited major breaking-news stories including: presidential speeches, the House of Representatives vote to rescue Wall Street, the nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the “beer summit” between Obama, a black college professor and a white policeman.

Top local editor and Department Head. Selected stories for the front page and local section; supervised investigative and enterprise stories, and managed the deparment’s budget. Helped defuse racial tensions during a 2004 police brutality case.

Living Editor (2002-2003) Supervised the Globe’s features department, including its stories, layout and design. Expanded range to include weightier news features: profile of a UN weapons inspector; exploration of glam-rock music fans who died in a nightclub fire; and analysis of photo images that would define the Iraq War. City Editor (1999-2002)Assistant department head in charge of local news. Supervised daily operations: story assignments, editing, photo coordination and deadline management. Played a major role in coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks, two of the hijacked flights having originated in Boston. Prior assignments included Deputy City Editor, and Assistant City Editor-Criminal Justice supervising the Boston metro police and courts reporters.

Directed breaking local news coverage in Broward County, assigned reporters and edited stories. Prior duties included spot-news rewrite editor; Broward police and schools editor; legal affairs reporter.Contributed to the Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Covered the state and federal court system as legal affairs reporter. Stayed in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods for a special in-depth report on urban decay. Also was one of three panelists for a televised debate between candidates for state attorney general. Prior assignments at The Times-Dispatch included metro Richmond police reporter during years of record-level homicides; and general assignment reporter covering a small suburban county.

Nieman Fellowship, Race And Judicial System

One of 12 American Fellows selected from more than 110 applicants. Studied in the undergraduate school and in Harvard Law School.

Ba, English/Journalism

Activities and Societies: Varsity football, The Collegian campus newspaper, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.President's Council, UR Alumni.