{"id":288122,"date":"2025-11-17T04:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T04:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:14:18","slug":"judy-owen-paul-friesen-inducted-into-media-wing-of-canadian-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288122\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Owen, Paul Friesen inducted into media wing of Canadian Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Judy Owen, a longtime contributor to The Canadian Press, and Winnipeg Sun columnist Paul Friesen were inducted into the media wing of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Both were formally enshrined during the Football Reporters of Canada\u2019s annual Grey Cup breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Owen has been covering a number of sports, including football, for The Canadian Press since 2002. After serving as the Winnipeg Sun\u2019s assistant city editor in 1991, Owen joined the paper\u2019s sports department a year later.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/21b4a43da7182839c4f3bf81f59eb5bf336a4250f923adb9edc94299d0093263.jpg?w=1000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>Owen became the Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat reporter in 1997, a rare accomplishment at the time for a female sports reporter in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Friesen\u2019s tenure with the Winnipeg Sun began in 1997 and he was promoted to columnist in 2001.<\/p>\n<p> The veteran journalist has long covered both the Blue Bombers and CFL but also provided first-hand accounts from Olympic and Pan Am Games as well as curling, hockey (NHL and world stage) and golf championships for the Sun.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-288122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}