Dawna Friesen Biography
Dawna Friesen is a famous Canadian television journalist and executive editor and chief anchor for Global News. She is also the flagship national newscast for Global News. In addition to that, Before joining Global News Dawna used to work for NBC News as its foreign correspondent. Furthermore, Friesen has an experience of over thirty years working as a journalist. Therefore she has been working everywhere from small towns in Canada to the front lines of history. Not so long ago she anchor Global News’ coverage of America Votes 2016 from Washington, D.C. when Donald Trump got elected as the president.
Dawna Friesen Age
Dawna Friesen Height/Measurements
Friesen is a beautiful and diligent lady who is very passionate about her work which has led to national recognition. Information regarding her height, she stands at an average and moderate height that is estimated to be 5ft and 5inches which is relatively 1.65 meters tall.
Dawna Friesen Weight
She has a moderate body measurement weight by the look of her current photos, However, we clearly don’t have the exact measurement of her weight but we will do our research and update you soon.
Family
She was born and brought up to both loving and caring parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her father Henry Friesen was a farmer while her mother Vivien Friesen was active in local politics. However, at the aging stage, her parents were diagnosed with dementia disease, which really affected Friesen mentally.
Dawna Friesen Education
Friesen did attend Red River College where she studied communications and journalism. Then in 1993, Dawna did earn a Southam Fellowship for Journalists from the University of Toronto and also in 2009, the eminent Alumni Award from Red River College.
Global News/Career
Dawna began her career in 1985 reading news at a hybrid television and radio station in Brandon, Manitoba. later she went to report for other stations in Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon, Calgary, and Vancouver together with Toronto.
In addition, Friesen got recruited in the late 1990s by the national networks in Canada and the US and she did join NBC News. During her work at NBC, Friesen covers stories out of London as well as the Middle East, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
Her good work led to her winning the News and Documentary Emmy Award as a correspondent in NBC’s coverage of the 2008 United States presidential election.
Dawna did join Global News in the year 2010 as their Global National anchor, succeeding Kevin Newman. After that, Dawna became the third full-time news anchor to lead a nightly newscast in Canada, after Sophie Thibault in 2002 and Céline Galipeau in the year 2009, and also the first in English Canada
Furthermore, Friesen won the Gemini Award for best news anchor in 2011. Besides that, she also hosts the Global National network’s newsmagazine series The New Reality.
Dawna Friesen’s Net Worth
Salary
The annual salary that she receives per year is approximately around $ 60,930 per year.
Nationality and Ethnicity
She is a Canadian citizen by birth and Friesen has a White ethnicity/heritage respectively.
Dawna Friesen Husband/Spouse
Friesen was first a wife to Tom Kennedy who they divorced in 2018. Later she found the love of her life in the same year Rick Anderson and they tied the knot on the 28th of July 2018.
Children/Kids
Dawna and her husband have a lovely kid whose name is not available at the moment.
Is Dawna Friesen still on Global News?
Friesen is a television journalist and executive editor and chief anchor for Global News.
Dawna Friesen Illness
Information about her illness is not available at the moment, but we will do our research and update you soon.
Where was Dawna Friesen born?
Social Media
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