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Jim DeFede joined CBS4 News in January 2006 and serves as an investigative reporter for the station, in addition to host of its Sunday morning public affairs program “Facing South Florida.”
He lined the 2016 presidential marketing campaign travelling to New Hampshire and South Carolina, in addition to throughout Florida, securing one-on-one interviews with Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio.
For CBS4 News, DeFede has produced lengthy-kind stories, together with half hour specials comparable to “Last Chance Boot Camp,” on Florida’s navy model corrections middle for younger offenders; “Life and Death at Zoo Miami,” a have a look at the care and remedy of animals at Miami’s zoo; and “The Versace Murder: A South Beach Story,” on the twentieth anniversary of the style designer’s homicide by spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
In August 2017, CBS4 News aired “The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide,” a one-hour documentary on the 2016 environmental catastrophe that hit the Treasure Coast and its relation to Everglades restoration. DeFede spent greater than a yr engaged on the documentary.
Jim DeFede was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 11, 1962. Although his household stays in the identical lease-managed condominium constructing the place he was raised, DeFede left Brooklyn when he was 19 to attend Colorado State University. Much to his mom’s persevering with disappointment, nevertheless, DeFede by no means graduated from faculty.
In 1986, DeFede landed his first job in journalism as an evening cops reporter for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington.
In 1991, he accepted a suggestion to develop into a workers author with the weekly newspaper Miami New Times, the place he gained quite a few awards throughout his 11 yr tenure with the paper.
Between 2002 and 2005, DeFede was a metro columnist for The Miami Herald.
DeFede has been a contributing author for Tina Brown’s Talk journal. His work has additionally appeared in Radar, The New Republic, Newsday, Mother Jones, The (London) Independent, Miami Monthly, Key West Magazine and Loft.
His first e book, “The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland,” was printed in 2002 by HarperCollins and was acknowledged with a 2003 Christopher Award for its means to “affirm the highest values of the human spirit.”
DeFede has gained 5 regional Emmy Awards for his work on CBS4 News.
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