Stephen Quinn began his reporting career in 1996, after graduating from BCIT's broadcast journalism program. During his last year of school, he interned at CBC's As it Happens in Toronto during the last Quebec referendum. He returned to Vancouver and was hired by CKNW as a general assignment news reporter where he spent more than four years covering various court cases, crime stories, breaking news and Vancouver City Council.
In 2000, Mr. Quinn was hired by CBC Radio as a civic affairs reporter. He covered Vancouver City Council, Translink, the GVRD Board (now MetroVancouver) and other civic issues.
He was also an occasional guest host of CBC's local current affairs programs The Early Edition, B.C. Almanac and On the Coast. He co-produced and hosted a radio series on the 2005 provincial election campaign which won the RTNDA's Ron Laidlaw Award for Continuing Coverage. He was also the recipient of the RTNDA's Gord Sinclair Award for Special Programming in 2009. Mr. Quinn has also been part of numerous award-winning newscasts and has received one honourable mention from the Jack Webster Foundation. He is creator of Quinn's Quiz, a popular radio segment that first appeared on The Early Edition.
He has guest-hosted Freestyle, Sounds Like Canada, and Q for CBC National Radio. He has also produced and hosted a series on the media for CBC's The Current.
In 2008 he was hired as the host of On the Coast, CBC Radio's local afternoon show in Metro Vancouver.
Mr. Quinn grew up in Ottawa, Ont. where he attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute. He moved to Vancouver in 1983.
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