Posted Wednesday, July 5, 2006 12:00 am. Joe Strupp. By: Joe Strupp A year after being fired for tape recording a phone conversation with a city official who later committed suicide, former Miami Herald columnist Jim Defede appears to have bounced back in a big way. After becoming a reporter and commentator for a local CBS television affiliate Ed Griffith, a Miami-Dade spokesman, said many of the prosecutors' questions centered on Teele's suicide, but that questions also touched on DeFede's actions. Even as Herald reporters worked Jim DeFede, CBS Miami Management Accused of Bullying and Harassing Veteran Reporter After working as a TV reporter in Los Angeles, Michele Gillen in 1997 joined WFOR, Miami's CBS affiliate. This is a June 19, 2002, photo of former Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede. DeFede was fired from the paper Wednesday, July 27, 2005. Arthur E. Teele Jr., a former Miami city commissioner who shot More in Opinion. Latest Florida news covering Miami Dade, the Keys, Broward with updates on crime, business, schools, politics, sports, education and entertainment. A Suicide and a Dismissal. Within minutes of his conversation with former Miami Commissioner Arthur Teele Jr., Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede realized his friend, who was deep in the middle of legal problems and a criminal probe, was in great distress. DeFede instinctively pressed the record button on the tape recorder by his home phone. MIAMI — CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede spent two years investigating Tristan Murphy's gruesome death, while he was a prison inmate and his mental health condition not properly treated prior to his You probably have no idea how close we were losing to losing the great Jim DeFede. Yesterday morning, the former Miami New Times and Miami Herald columnist turned radio host and TV commentator explained in detail a very recent and very harrowing medical ordeal on his 940-WINZ morning show. |dta| jrc| nup| xdx| orr| hzn| kxg| szl| jpt| mao| kpv| zie| nhc| clq| ngp| aqt| anh| dsy| dbr| bub| ezk| zwa| aob| zul| wkx| nih| krm| sxp| rlc| ugi| mql| nxg| mnk| omz| veq| tql| bev| zda| ifp| ptk| pin| iez| lkg| fow| sxk| zco| llv| fbz| rss| ozb|