Friesen takes on lead anchor duties at Global TV

TORONTO – Another accomplished female journalist is stepping into a lead anchor chair in Canada.Global Television named Emmy Award-winning journalist Dawna Friesen as anchor and executive editor of its national evening newscast Global National at a press conference in Toronto on Tuesday.As the London-based correspondent and anchor for NBC News, Today and MSNBC since 1999, Friesen has reported on some of the day’s top international stories from the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Europe and Africa. She was also part of NBC’s team covering the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and won an Emmy Award for her part in NBC’s...