As torontonka notes, Toronto can boast the largest number of talented journalists among other Canadian cities. It has a lot of reasons and one of them is the special status of this city.
However, it is quite difficult to argue with this statement. After all, the Toronto journalistic community is indeed very powerful.
When there are so many truly gifted people in one city, it is much more difficult for beginners to advance. In such situations, you have to surprise the audience with something unique and, most importantly, stand out amid the general mass of talents.
Marci Ien once brilliantly coped with this task and later managed to become a star of Canadian television. Her success was recognized and highly appreciated. It seemed that Marci would bask in the rays of television fame forever. However, out of the blue, the journalist stunned everyone with an unexpected decision.
What surprised the journalistic and television community so much? What was Marci’s decision? We will answer these questions in this article, referring to imdb.com and lop.parl.ca.
Her early years
Marci Ien is of Trinidadian descent. Her father Joel Ien moved to Canada in the 1960s. First, he entered the university and then became a teacher. He was so successful at work that, later, he was promoted to the position of school director.
Marci was born in Toronto. She spent her whole childhood and youth in this amazing city. Here, she finished school and became a student at the Polytechnic Institute.
The beginning of the journalistic path
In 1991, Marci Ien graduated from the institute and received a diploma in journalism.
The same year, she began her career on one of the provincial TV channels, where she was a reporter and news columnist.
1995 marked a new milestone in Marci’s career. She was entrusted with reports from the Toronto central venue, the Royal Park. The journalist’s reports have become an integral part of local news and later they were added to national news as well.
A successful TV hostess
In 1997, Marci Ien started working as a reporter on CTV News Channel. Her main task was to cover the most interesting events.
However, in 1998, she returned to the position of news anchor in Toronto.
Ien was offered to host the nationwide morning program Sanada AM in 2003. Marci gladly accepted that offer, and the whole country woke up to that show until 2016.
After the morning broadcast, she began hosting the program Social.
A numerously awarded TV hostess
Ien’s journalistic activities were quite highly valued. That’s why she won numerous prizes and awards.
She was awarded for the first time in 1995 by a Radio Television Digital News Association Award.
In 2008, Marci was awarded again, but this time by the Black Business and Professional Association.
2014 was marked for her with winning an award for high achievements in journalistic activity.
In 2015, Ian was nominated for The Best Host category and, in 2016, she won an African Canadian Achievement Award for her work on the morning show.
A sharp turn in the career
Despite Ien’s tremendous success in journalism, she decided to make a radical turn in her professional life in 2020.
Thus, she left journalism and began a career as a politician.
On September 17, 2020, Marci Ien took part in the elections representing the Canadian Liberal Party.
Her main political orientations were gender equality as well as the protection of women and youth rights.
Photo sources: torontomu.ca, cbc.ca