CTV, Global, CBC anchors feeling the non-stop news grind

TORONTO – "Once you do 19 hits in one day, that becomes the expectation," Global National anchor Dawna Friesen lamented Saturday morning in Toronto during the network news anchors session at the RTDNA Annual Conference. The relentlessly hungry news beast that is our 24/7/365 world demands more and more from reporters and anchors all the time said Friesen, who appeared on the panel with CTV National News Anchor Lisa LaFlamme, CBC TV’s Diana Swain and moderator Seamus O’Regan, CTV National News correspondent. All three said that because work never ends, sheer exhaustion is a real issue along with “just the...