MARCI IEN

Marci Ien is the Early Edition Host and News Anchor for CTV's Canada AM and anchors CTV News Channel with Marci Ien weekday mornings.

Marci was recently awarded the 2008 Black Business and Professional Association’s (BBPA) Harry Jerome Award in the media category for her contribution to journalism in Canada and her dedication to children’s charities. In September 2008, she travelled to Sierra Leone on behalf of Journalists for Human Rights where she met with reporters and led training workshops.

Marci's journalism career was launched at CHCH-TV in 1991 where she was a writer for the late newscast and general assignment reporter. Her news series Journey to Freedom, a look at the Underground Railroad, earned her a Canadian Radio and Television News Directors' Award in 1995. Then came a new assignment a Queens Park, where she covered daily political news for CHCH-TV's regional newscast as well as its British Columbia-based evening show, Canada Tonight.

In 1997, Marci joined the CTV news team where she reported from Atlantic Canada. During her time there she covered stories in all four provinces including the crash of a Swiss Air jetliner off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia in 1998.

Marci sits on the Board of Healthy Generations – the foundation of the Canadian Pediatric Society and on the Advisory Board for the Centennial College Journalism Program. Additionally, she works with World Vision for whom she traveled to Sri Lanka to report on the situation following the 2004 Tsunami.