Committee

Marci Ien is the Early Edition Host and News Anchor for CANADA AM and anchors CTV NEWS CHANNEL with Marci Ien weekday mornings.

Ien was recently awarded the Woman of Honour Award by the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) for being a role model in the community and for outstanding work in the community. Ien was also awarded the 2008 Black Business and Professional Association’s Harry Jerome Award in the media category for her contribution to journalism in Canada and her dedication to children’s charities. In September 2008, Ien travelled to Sierra Leone on behalf of Journalists for Human Rights where she met with reporters and led training workshops.

Ien’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 Ien a Canadian Radio and Television News Directors’ Award in 1995. Then came a new assignment a Queens Park, where Ien covered daily political news for CHCH-TV’s regional newscast as well as its British Columbia-based evening show, Canada Tonight.
In 1997, Ien joined the CTV’s 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.

A mom herself, Ien is involved with several child-based agencies and organizations including The Children’s Miracle Network - a North American network of children’s hospitals founded by Marie Osmond and John Schneider - and hosts various events in Canada and the U.S.

Ien 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. Ien also regularly speaks to teenagers about the importance of staying in school.