Bill Dedman, an American journalist, is an investigative reporter for news site msnbc.com and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
In 1989, Dedman received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting 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.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Dedman grew up in Red Bank, Tennessee. He graduated from the Baylor School in Chattanooga, and attended Washington University in St. Louis.
He started in journalism at age 16 as a copy boy at The Chattanooga Times. He was a newspaper reporter for the The Daily Star-Journal in Warrensburg, Missouri; newspapers in Chattanooga and Knoxville; and for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. He was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press, and has written for The New York Times.
In 2006 he joined msnbc.com, where he has written about topics including firefighter deaths, interrogations at the Guantanamo detention facility, and the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. He is also the moderator of the Open Channel investigative blog for NBC News and msnbc.com.
Dedman has taught advanced reporting as an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of Maryland, and has taught seminars for many news organizations and associations. He served for six years on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors. He also created Power Reporting, a web site of databases to assist journalists in research.