As part of its Brown-Bag Lunch Speaker Series, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will host a discussion with MSNBC.com’s investigative reporter Bill Dedman on Monday, April 12th from 12:30-2 p.m. in Room 308. The session is open to all members of the CUNY J-School community, students and faculty from other NYC-area journalism schools, and working journalists. Audience members are welcome to bring their lunch.

Dedman has recently gotten a lot of attention for his innovative use of a slideshow to tell his long narrative story about a wealthy elderly heiress who owns several expansive homes but doesn’t appear to live in them. Here’s a Poynter Q&A with him about that story.

He has also written about uninspected bridges, problems with firefighter safety equipment, the Obama administration’s visitor logs, treatment of detainees at Guantanamo, strategies for discouraging school shootings, and journalists making campaign contributions.

Dedman received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for “The Color of Money” articles in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders in middle-income neighborhoods. In 2008, he received a national award for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists for his msnbc.com articles and video on firefighter deaths.

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 advanced reporting part time at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, and Boston University, and created the Power Reporting site of research tools for journalists.

If you’re interested in attending this Brown-Bag Lunch event, please RSVP to barbara.raab@journalism.cuny.edu.