David Oancia (December 6, 1929 – January 18, 1995) was a Canadian journalist. He worked for several

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, primarily ''

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''. He is best known as the only resident non-

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North American correspondent in Beijing reporting on

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’s cultural revolution during the late 1960s. His contributions have been cited in numerous books, academic journals, and other publishings.

Life and career

David Oancia was born in Stonehenge, Saskatchewan on December 6, 1929, to Romanian immigrant parents. In his teenage years he worked in the Yukon in the fur trade. In 1952, he began work as a journalist at the ''

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'', and later worked at the Regina Leader-Post and the

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in Canada, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. In 1963 he started working at ''

'', and in two years became the newspaper's correspondent in

where he was the last non-communist reporter. In 1967, he received the National Newspaper Awards for his coverage and journalistic excellence. In 1971 he returned to Canada to work at the '' Montreal Star''. In 1974 he became director of Journalism at the Sir George Williams College at

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. In 1979 he was named director of

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News in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1982 he was appointed director of Information for the University of New Brunswick, and in 1984 he became editor at the ''

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'' and ''Evening Times-Globe''. He died in Saint John, New Brunswick on January 18, 1995, at the age of 65.

References

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