Dawna Friesen
Dawna Friesen | |
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CTV NewsNet anchor (1997–1999) NBC News foreign correspondent (1999–2010) Global National anchor and executive editor (2010–present) | |
Title | News anchor and executive editor of Global National |
Spouse(s) | Tom Kennedy (? – 2018) Rick Anderson (2018–) |
Children | 1 |
Dawna Friesen (born October 8, 1964) is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief anchor and executive editor of Global National.[1] She was previously a foreign correspondent for NBC News.
Career
She started reading news at a hybrid television and radio station in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1985[1][2] and from there went on to report for other stations in Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto.[1]
By the late 1990s she was recruited by national networks in Canada and the US and joined
In 2010 Friesen joined Global News as their Global National anchor, succeeding Kevin Newman.[1] Friesen was the third full-time female news anchor to lead a nightly newscast in Canada, after Sophie Thibault in 2002 and Céline Galipeau in 2009, and the first in English Canada.[5][6] In 2011 she won the Gemini Award for best news anchor.[7]
In addition to Global National, she also hosts the network's newsmagazine series The New Reality.
Personal life
Friesen was raised on a farm west of Winnipeg; her parents were nonobservant
Both of her parents developed dementia, and in 2014 Friesen was featured in a 16×9 program about dementia and how families cope with it.[8]
Awards
- 2009 News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long Form, as a correspondent in NBC's coverage of the 2008 United States presidential election.[4]
- 2011, Gemini Award, best news anchor[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e L. Scrivener, Dawna Friesen: From shy prairie girl to Global News anchor. Toronto Star, September 20, 2010.
- ^ a b c "Dawna Friesen named new Global National anchor". GlobalNational.com. July 13, 2010.
- ^ Dawna Friesen: NBC News Correspondent. NBC News. Retrieved December 12, 2014
- ^ National Television Academy.
- ^ Halfnight, Drew (July 13, 2010). "Dawna Friesen to replace Global National's Kevin Newman: 'My gender is just a non-issue for me'". National Post. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ Chung, Andrew (July 15, 2010). "Quebec asks: Why the fuss?". Toronto Star. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
- ^ a b "26th Annual Gemini Awards Culminate with Star-Studded Broadcast Gala" (PDF). Press release. Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. September 7, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 17, 2012.
- ^ Spicer, Roxana (August 13, 2014). "16X9: Inside the world of dementia, as a painful reality sets in". Global News. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
External links
- Dawna Friesen at globalnews.ca