Henry Champ
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Stephen Henry Champ (12 July 1937 – 23 September 2012) was a veteran Canadian broadcast journalist, working for CTV News, NBC News and CBC News.
Champ was born in
Brandon Sun. He transitioned to the world of television, working as a news correspondent at CTV for fifteen years, where he attained the role of Bureau Chief for CTV in Washington, D.C., Montreal and London
.
During the
W5 between 1978 and 1982 during which his pieces gained notoriety for exposing corruption and mishandling of Canadian foreign aid to Haiti, police brutality in Toronto, and the plight of a Canadian citizen wrongly imprisoned in Texas, amongst many other topics.[5]
He then moved to the United States as a correspondent for NBC News[6] for ten years, where he was assigned to the network's bureaus in Frankfurt, London and Warsaw, also serving for five years as NBC's congressional correspondent in Washington. In 1993 he returned to his home country to
news anchor for CBC News: Morning.[7]
Champ received an
RTNDA (Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada) President's Award.[5]
He continued to write a blog for the CBC's news website until his death[10] on his farm outside of Washington, D.C., in 2012, leaving a wife and five children from two marriages.
Books
- Fogarty, Catherine (2021). Murder on the Inside The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary. Windsor: Biblioasis. ISBN 9781771964029.
References
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Bjarnason, Dan (24 September 2012). "Henry Champ 1937-2012". Canadian Media Guild. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Fogarty 2021, p. 91.
- ^ Fogarty 2021, p. 93.
- ^ a b "2009 RTNDA Canada President's Award Winner". Newswire.ca. 10 March 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Canadian Press (31 March 1995). "Anchor goes to Washington". Calgary Herald. p. D4.
- ^ McCann, Wendy (3 September 1993). "Champ Back in Canada". Calgary Herald. Canadian Press. p. E11.
- ^ "CBC-TV's Henry Champ bids an emotional goodbye". CBC News. 7 November 2008. Archived from the original on 12 December 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- Brandon Sun. 23 September 2012.
- ^ "Journalist Henry Champ dies at 75". CBC News. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
External links
- Henry Champ at IMDb
- CBC Biography of Henry Champ
- Henry Champ's CBC weblog, Reports from America
- Brandon University biography of Henry Champ
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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