Word: herald
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...called ended with DeFede telling Teele to tell his wife, Stephanie, hello from him. That was at 5:10 p.m. on July 27. Forty-two minutes later, Teele called DeFede again, this time from the Herald lobby. ?He said I have a package here for you,? DeFede recalls. ?We were talking about that project in Overtown. He said I have some things that you should see. I wasn't recording this conversation. I could tell he was not emotional. I even asked him, ?Do you want me to come down and pick...
...Meanwhile, his colleagues at the Herald feared for DeFede's safety. The reporter who had called him at home with the news of the suicide immediately transferred DeFede to Herald publisher, Jesus Diaz Jr. ?I think there was some ridiculous speculation that he had come to the Herald to shoot me. The publisher wanted to reassure me that I was okay...
...rules. I didn't realize it when I did it. Now I'm thinking, what do I do with this tape.. I told the publisher and attorney I've got this tape. I know I'm not supposed to tape, but I have it.? That's when Herald attorney Robert Beatty, who was on speaker phone with Diaz, questioned DeFede more closely about the tape. DeFede says the attorney asked him why he recorded the conversation, whether he had ?malicious intent? or did it out of ?concern? for Teele. DeFede says the attorney assured him everything would be alright...
...While DeFede was in the midst of transcription, the executives at the Herald were holding a transcontinental conversation with Executive Editor Tom Fiedler, who was in San Jose, California at the annual meeting of the editors of the Knight Ridder chain, of which the Herald is a part. Says Fiedler, ?I was called out of the meeting literally minutes after 6 p.m. to be told about the suicide in the lobby...
...respond as the keeper in the newsroom?? Fiedler asks. ?I ultimately agreed and Jesus agreed and Robert Beatty agreed. We talked to smart people in San Jose.? He adds that the decision to fire the columnist was made by Herald executives. ?Nobody in San Jose said you should do this,? he says. ?We were looking to see if there was precedent here...