 As an investigative political journalist Bedingfield won the 2002 Journalist of the Year award for broadcast TV.He produced controversial and investigative media programs, as well as publishing three investigative books on the relationship between crime and politics, the first of which landed Bedingfield in court when criminal proceedings were initiated against him by the Nationalist Government of the time.The case caused a public uproar during its first sitting and was not pursued further by the government.