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Jim DeFede

Jim DeFede is an investigative reporter for CBS News Miami and host of of its Sunday morning public affairs program "Facing South Florida."

He has covered Florida politics since 1991, including every governor's race in the state since 1994, as well as the 2016 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.

DeFede has reported, written and produced more than a dozen documentaries, including "The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide," a one-hour film exploring the 2016 environmental disaster in Florida caused by toxic blue-green algae in Lake Okeechobee; "The Homestead Letters" exploring the reaction of local school kids who learn they were living next to a migrant detention camp housing children separated from their parents at the border by the Trump Administration; "The Secret World of Greyhound Training"; and three hour-long specials on the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people: "Bonded By Tragedy: 30 Days in Surfside," "Surviving Surfside: Deven's Story," and "Surviving Surfside: Year One."

He has won eight regional Em

Jim DeFede


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Jim DeFede has been an award-winning journalist for sixteen years, first with the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, and then with the Miami New Times. His work has appeared in Talk, The New Republic, and Newsday. He is currently a metro columnist for the Miami Herald.

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The Day The World Came To Town, September 2003
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Jim DeFede Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Family, Wife, CBS4 News, Salary, and Net Worth

Jim DeFede Biography

Jim DeFede is an American reporter working with CBS4 News at WFOR-TV in Miami as an investigative reporter and host of Facing South Florida on Sunday mornings. He has been working at the station for 16 years since 2006 and is also the author of the book The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11.

Jim DeFede Education

DeFede attended Colorado State University but did not graduate after dropping out before his time of graduation.

Jim DeFede Career

DeFede started his career in 1986, as a reporter in Spokane, Washington at the Spokesman-Review. After working there for 5 years, he became a staff writer for Miami New Times and spent the following 11 years settling down in Florida. During this time of the publication, DeFede earned various awards for his investigative work. In 2002, he changed his career and became a columnist for Miami Herald Metro. There, he worked for the publication for 3 years and left it in 2005.

He joined CBS 4 News in January 2006, and was named Investigative

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