He's Baaaaaaack

The Herald's TV critic Glenn Garvin reports that ex-Herald columnist Jim DeFede is back in the Miami mainstream media, as a reporter for CBS-4.

Former Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede, fired last July after admitting he secretly taped a source, has signed on at WFOR-CBS 4.

DeFede's title is reporter/commentator; he'll do ''news analysis, observations and opinion,'' the station said. DeFede lost his columnist job at The Herald when he told his editors he had secretly taped a phone call with former commissioner Arthur E. Teele shortly before Teele killed himself.

Last summer I made the prediction that DeFede would be back at the Herald by the end of the year. Well, I was off by 1 month and one medium (although he was doing a Saturday morning radio talk show on 610 AM last month).