Bill Dedman

Bill Dedman
Born	1960 (1960) Chattanooga, Tennessee
Alma mater	Baylor School, Chattanooga Washington University, St. Louis
Occupation	Journalist, author
Employer	Newsday
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, 1989. Investigative Reporters and Editors award. Worth Bingham Prize for national investigative reporting. Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award grand prize. Society of American Business Editors and Writers awards for investigative reporting and creative use of online media. the Society of Professional Journalists award for online investigative reporting.
Website	Empty Mansions| Official Website

Bill Dedman (born 1960) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, an investigative reporter for Newsday, and co-author of the No. 1 bestselling biography of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune.

Often relying on public records as much as insider accounts, Dedman has reported and written influential investigative articles on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders, racial profiling by police, interrogation of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and efforts to understand and prevent school shootings. His work includes one of the early examinations, in 1990, of the cover-up by the Roman Catholic Church of allegations of sexual abuse by a priest.

In 1989, when he was 28 years old, Dedman received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for The Color of Money, his series of articles in 1988 in Bill Kovach's Atlanta Journal-Constitution on racial discrimination by banks and other mortgage lenders in middle-income black neighborhoods. In addition to raising awareness of redlining of minority areas, and leading Congress to expand disclosure of data allowing analysis of racial patterns in mortgage data, The Color of Money was an influential early example of computer-assisted reporting, data journalism, and data-driven journalism.

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