In 1973, after graduating and leaving the Daily Illini, Ingrassia began working for a Lindsay-Schaub Newspaper Group in
Decatur, Illinois, Over the years he taught as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at
Columbia University and lectured at the business schools at Columbia and the
University of Michigan. From 1998 to 2006, Ingrassia was president of Dow Jones Newswires, and from 2006-2007 the company's vice president for news strategy. His previous book (
Random House, January 2010) was ''Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
, which chronicled the 2008–2009 bankruptcies and bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler. The book was the basis for Live Another Day'', a 2016 documentary film about the bailouts. As the
Wall Street Journals Detroit bureau chief from 1985 to 1994, Ingrassia won a 1993 Pulitzer Prize—along with his deputy,
Joseph B. White—for coverage of the boardroom revolt at
General Motors. They also received the
Gerald Loeb Award that year in the Deadline and/or Beat Writing category for the same coverage. The following year, Ingrassia and White wrote
Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry. Ingrassia's broadcast appearances included
Meet the Press,
CNBC,
National Public Radio,
CBS Sunday Morning, ABC's
20/20,
Newshour, and
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His work also appeared in the
Nihon Keizei Shimbun of Japan,
Newsweek,
Institutional Investor, and other publications. He was a member of the
Dow Jones Special Committee, which was established in 1997 to monitor the
editorial integrity of
The Wall Street Journal after the newspaper and its parent company were sold to
Rupert Murdoch's
News Corporation. ==Climate change==