Bill Dedman is best known for The Color of Money, his 1988 investigation of redlining of middle-income black neighborhoods by banks and other mortgage lenders.
12 Facts About Bill Dedman
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Bill Dedman is the co-author of the biography of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark and her family, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune, which was number one on The New York Times bestseller list and is being adapted into a television series for HBO.
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Bill Dedman started in journalism at age 16 as a copy boy at the Chattanooga Times.
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Bill Dedman attended Washington University in St Louis, writing for the student newspaper Student Life and editing part-time for the St Louis Post-Dispatch, but dropped out of college to work as the reporter at The Daily Star-Journal in Warrensburg, Missouri.
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Bill Dedman was a reporter for the Knoxville News Sentinel, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
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Bill Dedman was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press.
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Bill Dedman has covered news and sports part-time for The New York Times, including the home run record chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998 and 1999.
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From 2006 to 2014, Bill Dedman was an investigative reporter for NBC News and NBCNews.
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Bill Dedman was one of the four lead reporters on Newsday's 2019 undercover investigation of illegal racial steering by real estate agents, Long Island Divided.
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Bill Dedman's investigative reporting is analyzed at length in two books: Custodians of Conscience, which examines the techniques and moral implications of investigative reporting, and the textbook The Ethical Journalist: Making Responsible Decisions in the Digital Age.
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Bill Dedman documented her life in a series of reports on NBCNews.
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Bill Dedman reported the Clark mystery first in an online slideshow, a series of 47 photos with 2,788 accompanying words in captions.