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1. 1. www.thedoverclub.com

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   Published on: 1/25/2008   Last Visited: 3/7/2008

   Stephen Dean , KPRC Investigative Reporter
   
   Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Dean has been tackling the stories that other reporters shy away from since 1984.
   
   The author of two nationally published books, he is now a highly sought-after expert on Internet crimes and culture.
   
   Long before computers were a household fixture, Dean started breaking new ground on Internet crimes in 1996, and his extensive digging has been sending cyber-criminals to prison since joining the KPRC Local 2 Investigates team in February 2001.
   
   In early 2004, he started exposing child predators by posing as a child online, a technique that is still used by other newsrooms and police agencies to this day.
   
   Dean's reporting changed the World Wide Web overnight. In 2005, his expose of chat rooms geared solely toward indecent acts with children prompted hundreds of chat rooms to be unplugged.
   
   His work is featured in the National Museum of Television and Radio in New York and in a news-writing textbook at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
   
   Dean started his career at his hometown radio station, shutting down a fertilizer plant as one of his first accomplishments while still in high school. Families credited him with saving their family farms and livestock from illegal pollution. That's when Dean fell in love with investigative reporting.
   
   Dean has been married to the love of his life since 1997. He loves trail-riding with his friends, water-skiing and anything else on the water, along with traveling with his wife.

2. 2. www.newhorizonpressbooks.com

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   Published on: 1/1/2008   Last Visited: 6/23/2008

   By Stephen Dean
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   Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Dean has spent the last five years immersed in researching behavior on the World Wide Web.These secrets emerge during this extensive reporting, and through the trust people place in him because of his widely accepted role as an Internet authority.
   
   Parents reveal terrifying secrets affecting their children as they turn to Dean for advice; police investigations are launched because of this work, yielding even more intricate tales; and the viewers nationwide let this journalist behind the curtain where they would never think of allowing their own friends and family.These personalities will leap from the pages as readers think about their own friends, co-workers and neighbors having similar secrets.
   
   Stephen Dean is a Peabody Award winning investigative journalist and 22-year veteran of broadcast news, currently serving as the lead investigative reporter for KPRC-TV in Houston, TX, where he has worked since 2001.His standout reporting on Internet crimes has captured worldwide headlines, with first word and in-depth reporting on the nation's largest-ever child pornography round-up, notoriously known as "Operation Candyman".Dean was one of the first reporters in the country to wage war on Internet predators.He won the Peabody in 2002 for his reporting on rape in the military, which prompted Congress to change fedaeral law.Mr. Dean lives in Houston, Texas.

3. 3. www.click2houston.com

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   Published on: 4/5/2007   Last Visited: 4/6/2007

   HOUSTON -- KPRC Local 2 investigative reporter Stephen Dean wrote a book to help protect children from Internet predators.
   
   Dean has been covering Internet crimes since 1996.
   
   His reporting on KPRC Local 2 sent a predator schoolteacher to prison in 2001.
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   Dean will also be talking to nearly 3,000 middle school students in two different school districts about the dangers of online predators.