JOHN W. CAIRNS

• Returned to Harvard Media in new role leading provincial news coverage, including reporting on the Legislature beat
• Filed regular reports for online SASKTODAY.ca, also provided audio to CKRM radio newsroom
• Assigned stories, provided guidance and direction to province-wide news team on politics and other major news
• During provincial election, filed regular one-minute radio reports twice a week from the campaign trail
• Co-anchor of four-and-a-half-hour provincial election results coverage for radio and live streaming video - October 2024
• Resumed regular columns John Cairns' News Watch and Cairns on Cinema

• City Hall Reporter
• Covered breaking news for radio and online.
• Developed new radio reporting skills in a team environment.

• Provincial reporter filing regularly on Saskatchewan Legislature, Regina City Hall, and major breaking news and political news stories
• Writes "Daily Leg Update" providing daily coverage of Legislative Assembly to province-wide audience
• Game day coverage of CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders (2023)
• Coverage of Saskatchewan film and TV industry including regular Cairns on Cinema column
• Remote coverage of North Battleford city council for Battlefords Regional News-Optimist

• Award-winning multimedia reporter filing multiple stories a week for regional publications, along with photos and occasional video
• City Hall reporter, Political reporter, crime/courts and business reporter, part-time sports reporter, occasional Health, Education, First Nations and Entertainment assignments
• Columns: John Cairns' Leg Watch (when Legislature is in session); John Cairns' News Watch (monthly in News-Optimist); Cairns on Cinema

Host of Talk of the Town

• Interviewed guests for local half hour television show. Feb. 2021 to final shows in June 2022.

Host of Municipal Update

• Show host Feb. 2021 to March 2022. Performed interviews with region's Mayors on timely municipal topics, including COVID-19 pandemic.

Host of Locker Talk

• Interviewed local North Battleford guests on sports topics during 2020.

• Contributed 5000-word chapter on the Battlefords North Stars for the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's 50th anniversary book, Heart & Soul of the SJHL.
• Extensively reviewed archive material to find key moments in hockey club's history.

• Wrote twice-weekly box office column titled The Reject Report, reporting movie box office results.

• Reliable reporting on relevant news and events impacting community including City Hall, business, agriculture and other topics.
• Conceptualized, pitched, and produced stories from origination to publication. Interviewed sources and developed relationships to obtain accurate information.

• Based in Mississauga studios: volunteer positions including Sports Anchor 2000-01/2004. News Reporter 2002-03 for daily newscast First Local/City Magazine. Sports Reporter for SportsZone. Fill-In Sports Anchor, CitySport. Off-air reporter for Nokia Cup Curling, 2003. Play-by-play announcer, National Women's Hockey League, 2001-02. Contributor to The OHL This Week, covering the Ontario Hockey League. Freelance Reporter for The Prosperity Show, Toronto, fall 2000
• Based in London, ON: features reporter for daily news show Plugged In, 1996-97.

Archive Department Intern, In-suite Assistant helping on sports highlights packages, and Website Intern

Rotation included two weeks at Scarborough main production facility of CTV National News including one day at YTV, followed by placement at Toronto news bureau.

• Articling Student
• Experience in family law research, contracts, agreements and motions
• Attended court proceedings with experience in civil and criminal matters.
• Prepared pleadings, motions and briefs for review by supervising attorneys.
• Interviewed and communicated with clients via phone or in person
• Conducted initial client interviews, gathered facts and prepared for court appearances.