Global Television has named broadcast veteran Dawna Friesen as the new anchor and executive editor of its national nightly newscast. Friesen comes to the job directly from a decade of working for NBC as an international correspondent based in London. Starting in September, she will replace the departing Kevin Newman, who will sign off from Global National News on Aug. 20. The new anchor post will relocate Friesen to Vancouver, the home base for Global’s national news production team.Although Winnipeg-born, Friesen grew up on a farm somewhere between Headingley and Elie, Man. She graduated from Red River College in 1984 and had her first taste of journalism working at a small newspaper in Portage la Prairie. Soon after that she made the move to radio and television.
“The reason I got into this business was to give ordinary people a voice,” she said at yesterday’s news conference.
She is the second woman to be named a national news anchor in Canada. Last week, CTV announced that journalist Lisa LaFlamme will replace anchor Lloyd Robertson when he leaves CTV National News in mid-2011.
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