Bill Dedman

Investigative reporter

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MSNBC.com investigative reporter Bill Dedman

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Hand-held lie detector
U.S. troops in Afghanistan this month will receive a new tool that the Pentagon says will help them root out potential terrorists -- a hand-held lie detector. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.

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Cause for alarm
15 firefighters have died at fires where rescuers weren't given a chance to find them quickly. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.

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Check the bridges on your route
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Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Dedman is an investigative reporter for msnbc.com, where he has written about uninspected bridges, problems with firefighter safety equipment, Hillary Clinton's hidden thesis at Wellesley College, treatment of detainees at Guantanamo, school shootings, and journalists making campaign contributions.

Dedman received the 1989 Pulitzer in investigative reporting for "The Color of Money," articles in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders in middle-income neighborhoods. He received the investigative reporting award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work on firefighter safety equipment.

He got his start in journalism at 16 as a copy boy at The Chattanooga Times. He has written for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press.

Dedman taught investigative reporting part time at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University and Boston University, and created the Power Reporting site of research tools for journalists, now a service of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.