1. Dawna Friesen was born on October 8,1964 and is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief anchor and executive editor of Global National.
11 Facts About Dawna Friesen
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Dawna Friesen was previously a foreign correspondent for NBC News.
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Dawna Friesen started reading news at a hybrid television and radio station in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1985 and from there went on to report for other stations in Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto.
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In 2010 Dawna Friesen joined Global News as their Global National anchor, succeeding Kevin Newman.
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Dawna Friesen was the third full-time female news anchor to lead a nightly newscast in Canada, after Sophie Thibault in 2002 and Celine Galipeau in 2009, and the first in English Canada.
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Dawna Friesen was raised on a farm west of Winnipeg; her parents were nonobservant Mennonites.
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Dawna Friesen's father had her work on the farm, and she learned how to drive a tractor when she was six.
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Dawna Friesen moved with her family to St Albert, Alberta and graduated from Paul Kane High School in 1981.
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Dawna Friesen then moved back to Manitoba to attend Red River College and worked as a waitress when she was young.
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Dawna Friesen graduated from RRC's Creative Communications program in 1984, and began her journalism career working in Brandon, Saskatoon, Thunder Bay and Winnipeg.
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Dawna Friesen re-married on July 28,2018, to Rick Anderson after she divorced Tom Kennedy.