Stephen Henry Champ (12 July 1937 – 23 September 2012) was a veteran

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, working for

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and

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. Champ was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and studied arts at Brandon University in 1957 and 1958 (he did not graduate), with his first journalism job coming in 1960 as a

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at the ''

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''. 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

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and

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. During this time, he was among the last correspondents to leave Vietnam during the fall of Saigon and among the first Canadian journalists to be admitted into the People's Republic of China. Champ also contributed to the CTV newsmagazine series '' W5'' between 1978 and 1982 during which his pieces gained notoriety for exposing corruption and mishandling of Canadian foreign aid to Haiti,

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in Toronto, and the plight of a Canadian citizen wrongly imprisoned in Texas, amongst many other topics. He then moved to the

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as a correspondent for

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

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, in 1993 to become an

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for '' CBC News: Morning''. Champ received an honorary

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degree from

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in 2005. He retired from the CBC in November 2008 after serving as the Washington correspondent for

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. and was appointed Chancellor of

for two three-year terms beginning in 2008. Champ's professional contributions were recognized with a 2009

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(Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada) President's Award. He continued to write a blog for the CBC's news website until his death on his farm outside of

, in 2012, leaving a wife and five children from two marriages.

References

External links

*
CBC Biography of Henry Champ

Henry Champ's CBC weblog, ''Reports from America''

Brandon University biography of Henry Champ
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