Power Reporting is edited by Bill Dedman. Contact Bill at Bill@PowerReporting.com.

Bill is an investigative reporter for msnbc.com, the news Web site.

Bill has led Power Reporting seminars on reporting and editing in dozens of newsrooms. He is a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., where he started in journalism at age 16 as a copy boy. He was a newspaper reporter in Warrensburg, Mo., Chattanooga, Knoxville, Atlanta, and at The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He also has written for The New York Times. He has taught advanced reporting as an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of Maryland, 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. In 1989, Bill received the Pulitzer Prize in 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.

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