Cameron, (Mark) James Walter (1911-1985)

Scottish journalist, broadcaster, and author. He worked for papers including the Daily Express (1930-45), the Picture Post, and the News Chronicle (1952-60). He covered some of the most important issues of world affairs of the time, including the Vietnam War. He later produced television films on contemporary subjects, including Men of Our Time (1963) and Once Upon a Time (1984), and won various journalistic awards, among them the Hannen Swaffer Award for Journalism in 1966. His books include A Touch of the Sun (1950), Mandarin Red (1955), Witness in Vietnam (1966), Point of Departure (1967), and What a Way to Run a Tribe (1968).

Cameron was born in London, England, of Scottish parents. He started work as an office boy for the Weekly News in 1935, and then worked as a journalist in Dundee and Glasgow in Scotland before moving to Fleet Street, London, in 1940.