Jim DeFede Profile
Jim DeFede is an American eight-time Emmy-award-winning news anchor and reporter working at CBS News Miami serving as an investigative reporter. Moreover, he works as a host of its Sunday morning public affairs program titled Facing South Florida.
Jim DeFede Education
At the age of 19, DeFede had completed his high school diploma and went on to attend Colorado State University. He began his journalism career in 1986 where he worked as a night cops reporter for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington.
Jim DeFede Career
He later accepted an offer to work as a staff writer with the weekly newspaper Miami New Times. He worked at Miami New Times from 1991 and he won numerous awards during his 11-year tenure with the paper. Moreover, he worked as a metro columnist for The Miami Herald between 2002 and 2005.
DeFede was also working as a contributing writer for Tina Brown’s Talk Magazine. His work has also appeared in Newsday, Mother Jones, The (London) Independent, The Daily Best, and The Times of London Sunday Magazine.
From 1991, he has covered Florida politics including every governor’s race in the state since 1994. He also covered the 2016 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio. He produced for CBS the short film titled The Homestead Letters in 2019.
The short film featured exploring the reaction of local school kids who learned they were living next to a migrant detention camp housing children separated from their parents at the border by the Trump Administration.
In 2020, he produced The Secret World of Greyhound Training which revealed how many greyhound racing dogs were being clandestinely trained at facilities in Texas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska using the outlawed practice of allowing the dogs to chase, catch, and then kill live rabbits.
In 2021 and 2022, he went on to produce three hour-long specials on the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people tiled: Bonded by Tragedy: 30 Days in Surfside, Surviving Surfside: Deven’s Story, and Surviving Surfside: Year One.
Moreover, he has reported, written, and produced more than a dozen documentaries for CBS News Miami some of which include a documentary titled The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide, which is a one-hour film exploring the 2016 environmental disaster in Florida caused by toxic blue-green algae in Lake Okeechobee. He joined the CBS News Miami station in January 2006.
Jim DeFede Age
DeFede is 62 years old as of 2024. He was born on August 11th, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He also celebrates his birthday on August 11th every year.
Jim DeFede Height
DeFede stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 5 inches.
Jim DeFede Family
He is private about his personal life,Information regarding his parents and siblings is under review.
Jim DeFede Wife
DeFede has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight, It is therefore not known if he is engaged to someone, married or if he has any children.
Jim DeFede Salary
Being one of the top anchors and reporters for CBS News Miami, DeFede earns an annual salary ranging from $ 20,000 – $ 100,000.
Jim DeFede Net Worth
DeFede has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through his successful career as an anchor and reporter.
Jim DeFede Awards
DeFede has won eight regional Emmy Awards and a Murrow Award since joining CBS. He also won the duPont-Columbia Award for the Everglades documentary in 2019. He was a du-Pont-Columbia finalist in 2023 for Bonded by Tragedy.
Jim DeFede Books
In 2002, he published his first book which he titled The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, which was published by HarperCollins and was recognized with a 2003 Christopher Award for its ability to affirm the highest values of the human spirit.
His latest book is set to be titled, The Chronicles of Willy and Sal which is an anthology of stories he wrote on a pair of high school dropouts who went on to become Miami’s so-called Kings of Cocaine. It is set to be published in the Fall of 2023.
Jim DeFede CBS4 News
DeFede works at CBS4 News where he works alongside other famous CBS4 News anchors and reporters including;
- Tania Francois
- Anna McAllister
- Ivan Taylor
- Hank Tester
- Joan Murray
- KC Sherman
- Larry Seward
- Ted Scouten
- Morgan Rynor
- Lisa Petrillo
- Nikiya Carrero
- Trish Christakis
- Austin Carter
- Betty Nguyen
- Chelsea Jones
- Teri Hornstein
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