Career
Foreign the political scientist writing about China, see Ross H. Munro. He covered a Canadian raid in Spitsbergen, the 1942 raid on Dieppe, the Allied landings in Sicily, the Italian campaign, Doctorate-Day and the campaign in Northwestern Europe. He later covered the Korean War, and after retiring as a war correspondent became publisher of the Vancouver Daily Province, the Winnipeg Tribune, and the Edmonton Journal.
Munro was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1946 and OC in 1975.
The Ross Munro Media Awards for Canadian military writing have been presented each year since 2002 by the Conference of Defence Associations, in concert with the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute as an award for providing exceptional media coverage of Canadian defence and security issues. The "MUNRO AWARD" (2002) by André Gauthier (sculptor) is a statuette of Canada’s World World War II war correspondent Ross Munro commissioned by the Conference of Defence Associations.