Marci Ien
March 14th, 2007

From CTV.ca:
Marci Ien is the News Anchor for Canada AM. She's also the back-up host for the program, occasionally anchors for CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson and formerly anchored CTV Newsnet since its inception in 1997.

Marci Ien began her journalism career at CHCH-TV in 1991 where she started writing for the late newscast as well as general assignment reporting. Her news serial Journey to Freedom, a look at the Underground Railroad, earned Ien a Canadian Radio and Television News Directors' Award in 1995. That same year, she began reporting at Queens Park, covering daily political news for CHCH-TV's regional newscast as well as its British Columbia-based evening show, Canada Tonight.

In 1997, Ien made her national debut as part of CTV's news team in 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.

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