Contact Bill Dedman

To reach Bill Dedman, send an email to Bill@PowerReporting.com.

If you're looking for more information about Bill's book, "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune," written with Paul Clark Newell, Jr., please go to emptymansionsbook.com.

To schedule a Power Reporting seminar in your newsroom, with training in the use of public records and computer-assisted reporting, please check out the details, or send an e-mail to Bill@PowerReporting.com.

Changes at Power Reporting

The links are no longer being updated at Power Reporting, which for 12 years has been a free resource for journalists, while trying to help journalists integrate public records and Web research with daily and enterprise reporting.

Thanks to everyone who contributed time and suggestions through the years.

Archives: You can find the:

• sample data files for training
• 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
• a 2005 report for the Knight Foundation, Newsroom diversity has passed its peak at most newspapers, with a separate page of data for every daily newspaper in the U.S.
• an early Web search tutorial
• the newsroom treasure hunt
• an early set of guidelines for Internet use in newsrooms
• a guide to managing computer-assisted reporting
• the Excel-driven charts on Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire
• Deadly Lessons: School Shooters Tell Why, a report in The Chicago Sun-Times (PDF file)