Bill Dedman

Bill Dedman

Bill Dedman, an American journalist, is an investigative reporter for msnbc.com and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

In 1989, Dedman received the Pulitzer Prize for [http://powerreporting.com/color/ The Color of Money] , a series of articles in Bill Kovach's "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders in middle-income neighborhoods.

Dedman was born in 1960 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in Red Bank, Tennessee, attending the Baylor School. He started in journalism at age 16 as a copy boy at The Chattanooga Times. He was a newspaper reporter in Warrensburg, Missouri; Chattanooga; and Knoxville; and at the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", "The Washington Post", and "The Boston Globe". He also has written for "The New York Times".

Dedman has taught advanced reporting as an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of Maryland. He was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press, and served for six years on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors.

He also created Power Reporting, a database of databases to assist journalists in research, now operated by Columbia Journalism Review.

External links

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14897510/ msnbc.com profile]
* [http://powerreporting.com/ Power Reporting site]
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/bill_dedman/index.html Bill Dedman archives] of articles in "The New York Times".

Articles

* [http://powerreporting.com/color/ The Color of Money] , Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", 1988.
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23926278/ "New anti-terror weapon: Hand-held lie detector"] , "msnbc.com", April 9, 2008
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22262284/ "Late inspections of bridges put travelers at risk"] , "msnbc.com", January 30, 2008
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/ "Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis"] , "msnbc.com", March 2, 2007
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/ "Journalists dole out cash to politicians (quietly)"] , "msnbc.com", June 21, 2007
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15361458/ "Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tactics"] , "msnbc.com", October 23, 2006
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15361462/ "Can the '20th hijacker' of Sept. 11 stand trial?"] , "msnbc.com", October 24, 2006
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16890732/ "Flaws found in firefighters' last line of defense"] , "msnbc.com", February 5, 2007
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16991877/ "CDC's fire investigation unit: the 'No Go Team'"] , "msnbc.com", February 6, 2007
* [http://www.boston.com/news/specials/fires/ Fire Response series] , on firefighters taking longer to get to fires, "Boston Globe", 2005.
* [http://www.boston.com/globe/metro/packages/tickets/ Speed Tr
] , series on racial profiling by police, "Boston Globe", 2003-2004.
* [http://www.powerreporting.com/files/shoot.pdf Deadly Lessons: School shooters tell why] , PDF file, series on Secret Service study of school shootings, "Chicago Sun-Times", 2000.


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