Marci Ien currently delivers the important news stories of the day to viewers on CANADA AM, Canada's #1 national morning show in addition to anchoring the news on CTV News Channel. She recently anchored the news during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games as a part of CTV's OLYMPIC MORNING team.

In 2010 Ien was presented with the Women of Honour award by the Black Business and Professional Association's (BBPA). The BBPA honoured Ien in 2008, with the association's Harry Jerome Award in the media category for her contribution to journalism in Canada and her dedication to children's charities. Also, in 2008, she travelled to Sierra Leone on behalf of Journalists for Human Rights where she met with reporters and led training workshops.

Ien sits on the Board of Dare Arts, a Canadian not-for-profit organization that uses arts education to empower children to become leaders and she is 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 joined the CTV National News team in 1997 in the Atlantic bureau in 1997. 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 1995, while working at CHCH-TV in Hamilton, her news series JOURNEY TO FREEDOM – A LOOK AT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD earned her 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.

Currently, she lives in Toronto with her family and loves movies, going to the theatre, and is a basketball fanatic.