Jim DeFede

Investigative Reporter at CBS News Miami; Author of "The Day the World Came to Town"

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Jim DeFede Biography

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 Emmy Awards and a Murrow Award since joining CBS and the duPont-Columbia Award for the Everglades documentary. He was also a du-Pont-Columbia finalist for "Bonded by Tragedy."

DeFede landed his first job in journalism as a night cops reporter for The Spokesman-Review in Washington before becoming a staff writer with the weekly newspaper Miami New Times, where he won numerous awards during his 11-year tenure with the paper. He has also been a metro columnist for The Miami Herald and a contributing writer for Tina Brown's Talk magazine. Additionally, his work has appeared in Newsday, Mother Jones, The (London) Independent, The Daily Beast, and The Times of London Sunday Magazine.

DeFede is the author of "The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland," which was recognized with a Christopher Award for its ability to "affirm the highest values of the human spirit."

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/16/2024.

Jim DeFede Videos

  • CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede
    CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede questioned Miami-Dade, Broward superintendents about how politics will impact the classroom.
  • Jim DeFede - "Bookaccino Live" Book Group
    Jim DeFede, author of THE DAY THE WORLD CAME TO TOWN, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, COME FROM AWAY, was our November "Bookaccino...

Jim DeFede Books

  • The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
    The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

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