Faculty & Staff

Michael Camp

Michael Camp is acting chair of the Journalism/Communications Programme at St. Thomas. He started teaching at the university on a parttime basis in 2003 and has been working as a full-time professor since 2006. Michael has a Master’s degree in Politics from the University of New Brunswick and a BA from Trent University. He started in journalism in the early 1980s at the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal and the Saint John Evening-Times Globe. After three years in print, he joined the CBC, filing radio and television reports from Northern New Brunswick. He later worked at CBC operations in Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, and Toronto, in positions ranging from legislative reporter, program host, news announcer, network producer, and finally editor in the CBC’s online news service. Recently, Michael has been involved in writing a film documentary co-production with the CBC called Up Against the Wall,’ about the proliferation of high-security barriers between nations, regions and cultures.

Don Dickson

Don Dickson received his BA in Communications from the University of Washington in 1965, worked as a reporter/host with TV stations in Seattle and Baltimore, earned his MS in Journalism from Columbia University and MS in History of Ideas from Johns Hopkins then worked abroad with a TV news agency in England, Kenya, Beirut, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tokyo. He joined the CBC as a field producer in Ottawa in 1986, came to the CBC in Fredericton two years later where he worked as a producer, reporter and host. He retired from the CBC in 2006 to do more teaching. He has a wife and daughter, Charlotte and Saraya.

Philip Lee

I was born in Maryland and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick. I have worked as a journalist with The Sunday Express in St. John’s, Newfoundland, The Telegraph Journal in New Brunswick, the Atlantic Salmon Journal and the Ottawa Citizen. I have been stubbornly refusing to leave the Maritimes all my life. I’ve won some journalism awards and published three books, Home Pool: The Fight to Save the Atlantic Salmon, and the national bestseller Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna, and Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man. I am an associate professor of journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. I live in Fredericton with my partner Deb Nobes and my four children (some in the house with us and others nearby).

Christine McLean

Christine McLean is an award-winning journalist who just completed her Masters in Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Born in Nova Scotia, she also holds a degree in English literature from Dalhousie University in Halifax and an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. Christine has written and directed documentaries for CBC Television and the Discovery Channel. She has also hosted the morning show on CBC Radio in Moncton and been a frequent columnist on the subject of arts and culture.

Julian Walker

Julian Walker is a lecturer in Journalism at St.Thomas where he has taught since 2001. He is a columnist with the Telegraph Journal and was formerly a staffer with the Ottawa Journal, Montreal Star and the Telegraph Journal. Julian was also the editor of the St. Croix Courier and a deputy minister for 10 years in the New Brunswick government. He now operates his own consulting firm, Julian H. Walker & Associates.

Jacques Poitras

Jacques Poitras is the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick. He co-authors a blog about provincial politics at http://www.cbc.ca/nb/blogs/spinreduxit/ Before joining the CBC, he spent more than six years at the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He is the author of two books, The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma and Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy. He has taught part-time at STU since 2007.

Mark Tunney

Mark Tunney has been a creative force in the New Brunswick media for 25 years, with stints as a columnist, reporter and editor at the Telegraph-Journal and as a producer, reporter and documentary maker at CBC-Radio. In the summer of 2008, he helped produce the CBC-Radio national summer show “Alien Nation.”

“I’m a product guy. I never assume anyone is compelled to read or listen to what I have to say; from its opening lines, the product has to be compelling. If I can make people laugh, cry, maybe think a little, I feel I’ve done my job.”

He now teaches radio and print journalism at St. Thomas University and works as a freelance journalist. He lives in Saint John with his wife and three teenaged children.

: Pat Richard

Pat has 30 years experience working as News Cameraperson/Editor throughout Atlantic Canada, Quebec, and the eastern United States for ATV(CTV)News(1979-1999) & CBC(1999-present). He’s been the Technical Advisor to the Journalism Programme since 2006 and is married to Hélène Côté. Pat still dabbles in still photography and putters around in his 1967 VW Beetle.

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