Henry Champ

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Henry Champ LLD (born 1939 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a veteran Canadian broadcast journalist and currently a correspondent for the CBC Newsworld based in Washington, DC.

Champ was previously a correspondent for NBC News for ten years before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1993 to become an anchor for CBC News: Morning. Before moving to the United States, he worked at CTV for the previous fifteen years. He also contributed to W-FIVE between 1978 and 1982. Before W5, he was bureau chief for CTV in Washington, D.C., Montreal and London. He was born in Brandon General Hospital. He started as a sportswriter at Brandon Sun. Champ received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Brandon University in 2005 and was appointed Chancellor of this institution in 2008 for a three year term.

[edit] References

• McCann, Wendy. "Champ Back in Canada", Canadian Press (via Calgary Herald), 3 September 1993, p. E11. 
• Canadian Press. "Anchor goes to Washington", Calgary Herald, 31 March 1995, p. D4. 

[edit] External links

• CBC Biography of Henry Champ
• Henry Champ's CBC weblog, Reports from America
• Brandon University biography of Henry Champ