In 1965, Cameron abandoned his studies in English literature at the University of Toronto to pursue an acting career in New York where he began freelancing for CBC Radio as an arts and entertainment critic/reviewer.
In 1974, Cameron was hired by the fledgling national network Global as writer, reporter and eventually host of the programme "Newsweek".
In 1978, Moses Znaimer, president of Toronto's CITY-TV, hired him to anchor the hour-long newscast, CityPulse which aired weeknights at 10 p.m. Cameron left CITY in September, 1983, when talks for his next contract collapsed over issues of salary and style.
He was hired almost immediately by Mark Starowicz, then executive-producer of the CBC daily current affairs program The Journal.
In 1999, Cameron left the CBC for good when contract talks collapsed, acting briefly as the communications vice-president for an online financial marketing firm before returning to journalism from 2000 until late in 2001 as a reporter and columnist for National Post.
In 1980, Cameron's semi-autobiographical play about his teenage years, entitled "The Ramble Show" was staged in Toronto as part of Equity Showcase.
Cameron was married to Cheryl Hawkes, at the time a freelance journalist who was formerly with the Canadian Press, Reuters, CTV, Maclean's Magazine and CBC TV News.
[3] The essay appeared in the May 2005 issue of The Walrus and won two gold medals at the 2006 Canadian National Magazine Awards in the health and personal journalism categories.