(CBC, CTV, and NBC) Journalist Henry Champ dies at 75

Source: CBC

Longtime Canadian broadcast journalist Henry Champ died Sunday morning in Washington, D.C., his son Adam said.

Champ was 75.

He was living in Washington with his wife and serving his second term as chancellor of Brandon University, his alma mater in western Manitoba.

While in the U.S. capital, he was known to take visiting students from that university under his wing. Champ received an honorary doctor of laws degree there in 2005, three years before he became chancellor.

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He was CBC Newsworld's Washington correspondent before he retired in 2008.

In 1993, he joined the anchor team at CBC News: Morning in Halifax, and went on to become the CBC Newsworld correspondent in Washington, D.C.

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