On Going From Alt-Weekly to Daily
By AAN Staff
november 15, 2002 04:32 pm
According to Harris Meyer, Jim
DeFede is learning what it means to
make the "transition from kicking
powerful butts in the pages of the
freewheeling (Miami) New Times to doing
the same at the more sedate (Miami)
Herald." Meyer reports that DeFede,
speaking at a local SPJ meeting, said
that when he wrote a tough column
criticizing two local businessmen, the
Herald was "flooded with angry
responses" and "the paper essentially
repudiated his column in an editorial the
next day lavishing praise" on the targets
of DeFede's ire. On the other hand,
DeFede said, Miami-Dade Mayor Alex
Penelas now returns his calls.