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Henry Champ, Canadian broadcast journalist, passed away this Sunday morning in Washington, D.C. at the age of 75. He was living with his family in Washington D.C. while he served as the chancellor of Brandon University, his alma mater in western Manitoba.
Champ had also received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Brandon University in 2005, which was three years before his chancellorship. The President of Brandon University, Deborah Poff, stated "despite all of his sophistication, he was a home-grown farm guy who loved Manitoba, loved rural communities and loved the university he had attended." Poff added that the university has is scheduled to arrange a memorial service to remember Champ soon.
Champ was born in Hartney, and attended the Brandon College before beginning career as a journalist. His first job was as a print reporter with the Brandon Sun. Soon after, Champ joined television, where he reported top stories to several network news including CBC, CTV and NBC. He had 15 years of experience with CTV's W5, where he worked as the network's Washington and London bureau chief. He spent most of this time reporting to NBC in Europe and Washington before he left the network and joined CBC Halifax in 1993. It was not until 2008 that Champ decided to take retirement from the post of CBC's Washington correspondent. He still kept on writing analytical online columns on U.S. politics for CBC News until earlier this year.
Champ’s boss at CBC, Nancy Waugh, who is executive producer of CBC Halifax, stated that he was a "Lovely, sweet, funny man. He could interview anyone. He never took himself too seriously." Whereas Champ’s colleague and friend, Peter Mansbridge, CBC's chief correspondent remembered him in these words: "Here's a guy who has covered some of the great stories of our generation and the generation before it, from Vietnam right up until today, really, because he was still writing blogs for the CBC, in just the last little while."
Champ is now survived by his wife, Karen De Young, and five children.
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