{"id":9192,"date":"2010-10-20T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2010-10-20T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:42:55","slug":"award-winning-news-anchor-looking-forward-to-falls-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/award-winning-news-anchor-looking-forward-to-falls-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning news anchor looking forward to Falls visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&amp;e=2806497\">Welland Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The smiling new face in the anchor chair at Global National is no stranger to travel.<\/p>\n<p>As a foreign correspondent, Dawna Friesen has had some of the toughest assignments you can get in a post 9\/11 world, including reporting from Iraq prior to the downfall of Sadaam Hussein and from Morocco while following the trail of the 2004 Madrid train bombing suspects.<\/p>\n<p>These days, as she&#8217;s settling into one of the most high profile journalism jobs in the country, Friesen says travelling across Canada is much safer, but just as interesting as her career abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t been (to Niagara Falls) in a long while, so it&#8217;s exciting,&#8221; Friesen said in a telephone interview from Vancouver on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a place you can&#8217;t miss when you go on a cross-Canada tour. How could you possibly go across Canada and not go to Niagara Falls?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier last week, Friesen and her crew had stops in Halifax, Montreal and St. John.<\/p>\n<p>Her schedule took her to Ottawa on Monday, Toronto today and takes her to Niagara Falls on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Welland Tribune: The smiling new face in the anchor chair at Global National is no stranger to travel. As a foreign correspondent, Dawna Friesen has had some of the toughest assignments you can get in a post 9\/11 world, including reporting from Iraq prior to the downfall of Sadaam Hussein and from Morocco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[4588,4587,4586,552],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-dawna-friesen","tag-foreign-correspondent","tag-news-anchor","tag-welland-tribune"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}