Bill Dedman
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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 The Color of Money, a series of articles in Bill Kovach's Atlanta Journal-Constitution on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1960, Dedman started in journalism there at age 16 as a copy boy. 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. Before joining MSNBC, he was managing editor of the Telegraph of Nashua in New Hampshire.
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, operated by Columbia Journalism Review.
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- MSNBC profile and stories
- Power Reporting site
- Dedman, Bill. Fire Response series, on firefighters taking longer to get to fires, Boston Globe, 2005.
- Dedman, Bill, and Latour, Francie. Speed Trap: Who gets a ticket, who gets a break?, series on racial profiling by police, Boston Globe, 2003-2004.
- Dedman, Bill. Deadly Lessons: School shooters tell why, PDF file, series on Secret Service study of school shootings, Chicago Sun-Times, 2000.
- Bill Dedman archives of articles in The New York Times.
- Dedman, Bill. The Color of Money, Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1988.
- Dedman, Bill. Picking the Pulitzers. Columbia Journalism Review, on Pulitzer judging, May/June 1991.
