In the
last seven years Rony Camille has worn many hats.
He’s
been a newspaper reporter, web producer, radio producer and host,
student
newspaper editor, and photographer.
Camille
is currently a freelance production associate for the ABC News Medical Unit in Needham, Mass, where
he assists in the video development for OnCall+, an
extensive
online medical resource on the network’s digital platform.
He was
previously with WHDH-TV in Boston
as a part-time web producer. He also
covered
the Southern NH towns of Hollis and Brookline
as a reporter for The Hollis
Brookline
Journal, a small weekly newspaper produced by The Cabinet Press in
Milford, NH.
He is
a May 2007 graduate of N.C. Central
University, in Durham,
NC with a B.A. in
Mass
Communication with a concentration in Journalism.
While
at NCCU he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Campus Echo, the student newspaper,
where he covered rape allegations by a NCCU student against members of the Duke University lacrosse team and the
murder of Denita Smith, a Campus Echo staff member, among many other
stories.
In May
2007 Camille participated in The New York Times Student Journalism
Institute in New Orleans,
a two-week training program.
Apart
from his print journalism experience, Camille interned with the
ABC News
Law & Justice Unit covering The Duke University lacrosse case.
Additionally,
he has freelanced for American Urban Radio Networks, ESPN
Regional
Television, and produced for Tom O'Brien's Tiger Financial News
Network
and WNCU-FM, NCCU’s NPR affiliate.
In
March 2007, Camille was awarded the National Association of Black
Journalists
(Region
III) Sidmel Estes-Sumpter Student Journalist of the Year. NABJ Region III
covers
Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina
and
Tennessee.
Camille
has always wanted to be a journalist, so when he came to NCCU in Aug.
2003
he was one of two freshmen writing for The Campus Echo. He eventually
evolved
though the ranks to become editor-in-chief in May 2006.
During
his tenure as editor, The Campus Echo won 13 awards from the Black
College
Association’s “Excellence in Journalism Student Newspaper Awards.”
He is
the 2005 recipient of The Herald-Sun of Durham, N.C.
“Most Promising
Journalist
Award” and 2006 and 2007 recipient of N.C. Central
University’s Soaring
Eagle award for his contributions to The Campus Echo.
As the
oldest son of Ketlie & Nicholson Camille, Rony is one of the first in
his family
current
generation to graduate from college after his parents immigrated to the
Americas from Haiti in
the early 1980s.
When
not covering the news, Camille enjoys spending time with his family,
traveling,
attending soccer matches, watching car races, movies and reading.
Other passions
include aerospace engineering and flying airplanes — a passion that
he’s
working on fulfilling.
Originally
from the LaSalle, Québec, Canada, Camille grew up in Nashua, NH.
Additional Links:
Rony
Camille’s NYT Institute Biography
By Dante Mozie | NYT Institute
| New Orleans
May 2007
Rony
says au revoir a NCCU
Campus Echo |N.C. Central University|
Durham, NC April 18, 2007
