Byron Christopher
| Byron Christopher | |
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| Born |
May 1, 1949 Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
Byron Christopher (born May 1, 1949) is a Canadian news reporter from Campbellton, New Brunswick. His style of work has been referred to as "Armageddon-like blood-and-guts crime reporting".
Christopher has filed stories across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, with most of his journalistic career focused on Western Canada, often reporting on criminal justice. During the two decades that he worked for The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and for 630 CHED, he won national awards for both his print and radio journalism. He is known for his ability to secure exclusive interviews with convicted criminals, and is sometimes the only media source that high-profile criminals will contact. His investigation into alleged illegal activity by Calgary-based Talisman Energy was reported worldwide, and eventually forced the company to suspend its operations in Sudan.
Christopher was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. He began his broadcasting career in 1965, working as a sports reader for a local radio station, CKNB, while he was attending high school in Campbellton. After graduating in 1967, Christopher worked for a year and a half as a disc jockey at CKMR Radio in Newcastle, New Brunswick. After working with CKMR, Christopher was hired to work as a DJ at CFOM Radio in Quebec City. Christopher later commented that he was surprised to have been hired to work in Quebec, "since [his] French vocabulary at the time consisted [only] of the word 'Chevrolet'".
After working in Quebec, Christopher worked as a radio and television news announcer in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. In 1970 Christopher moved to South Australia, where he worked for two Australian media outlets, Radio 5AU and GTS Television. Christopher returned to Canada in 1972, and has since pursued news assignments in the United States, Poland, Germany, Austria, England, Scotland, Wales, Nepal, and Nicaragua. Most of his subsequent reporting has been focused on Western Canada.
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