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 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.