Dedman, a pioneer in computer-assisted reporting, won the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1989 for "The Color of Money," an industry-altering series on racial discrimination among mortgage lenders. He's now an editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, and he travels around the country training newsrooms on how to make better use of the Internet in their day-to-day coverage of events.
Power Reporting offers a wide array of links to research tools. I'll list a few of the areas that caught my eye, but I'd recommend setting aside a half-hour or so to more fully explore the site. There are quite a few gems in the pile of links.
You'll find the usual run of topic areas here -- search engines, people finders, reference shelf, government links -- plus quite categories that often aren't plumbed as extensively at other journalist-produced sites. Power Reporting includes, for example, extensive links that would be valuable to reporters researching nonprofit agencies.
The most valuable aspect of the site is Beat by Beat, a lengthy list of useful links by coverage area. Here you'll find lists of Web sites valuable to reporters and editors covering aging, city and suburban issues, the environment, guns, work-related issues, and more.
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