Henry Champ

Henry Champ is a veteran reporter with a journalism career spanning 40 years. During that time he's covered some of the world's biggest stories, and is known for being one of the last correspondents to leave Vietnam during the fall of Saigon, and one of the first Canadian journalists to be admitted into the People's Republic of China.

Although Champ began his career as a print reporter for the Brandon Sun in Manitoba - making just $191 a month - he is best known for his time in TV. Many Canadians remember Champ as the tough investigative reporter for CTV's W5 program, where for 15 years he exposed and uncovered some of the top Canadians stories of that time, including the mishandling of Canadian foreign aid to Haiti. He even helped free a Canadian wrongly imprisoned in Texas.

During the 1980s Champ was a front-line correspondent in Europe for NBC News, covering tumultuous political events in Europe and the Middle East. In 1993, Champ moved back to Canada to join the anchor team at CBC News: Morning in Halifax, and then went on to become the CBC Newsworld correspondent in Washington, DC.

Passionate about politics, current events and hard-hitting news, Champ retired days after the biggest story of the century - the election of Barak Obama, the United States' first African-American president. But after four decades of news, Champ still has his hand in the business, contributing to a bi-weekly column for CBCNews.ca.

Explore the exciting world of Henry Champ, a sincere man who's seen it all.

Highlights 

• Winner of the RTNDA President's Award
• Chancellor of Brandon University
• CBC Newsworld's correspondent in Washington, DC