Faculty & Staff
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).
Michael Camp
Michael Camp started teaching journalism on a part-time 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 Telegraph Journal in Saint John, NB. 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. In addition to his work at St. Thomas, Michael is an on-going member of the New Brunswick political panel, heard weekly on CBC Radio. Recently, he worked as story consultant and writer on a CBC co-production called ‘Up Against the Wall,’ about the global proliferation of high-security barriers between nations, regions and cultures. Up Against the Wall was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2010 in the category for best Canadian documentary.
Jan Wong
Jan Wong divides her time between Toronto and Fredericton. She is a columnist at Toronto Life magazine, where she won a 2011 National Magazine Awards silver medal for column writing. She is also a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B. Her latest book, Out of the Blue – a Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness, will be published in 2012.Jan is a third-generation Montrealer. In 1972 she became the first Canadian to study in China during the Cultural Revolution. She has worked as a staff reporter for the Montreal Gazette, the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal. From 1988 to 1994, she was the Globe and Mail’s much-acclaimed China correspondent, where she covered the 1989 massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. She later wrote about celebrities in her weekly “Lunch With” column for six years. She is a recipient of the George Polk Award in the U.S. and a National Newspaper Award in Canada, among other honors.Jan is a graduate of McGill University, Beijing University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her first book, Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, was named one of Time magazine’s top ten books of 1996. It remains banned in China. She is also the author of Lunch With: Sweet and Sour Celebrity Interviews; Jan Wong’s China: Reports from a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent and Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found. Visit Jan’s website at www.janwong.ca
Don Dickson
Don Dickson received his BA in Communications from the University of Washington in 1965, worked as a reporter/host with TV stationsin 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.
Julian Walker
Julian Walker is a lecturer in Journalism at St.Thomas University 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 a 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.
