Marcia Vickers

Marcia Vickers

Marcia Vickers is an award-winning print journalist, focusing primarily on business matters. She is a senior writer at Fortune Magazine. She primarily writes investigative pieces, features and profiles. Wikipedia entries related to Vickers include an article about pardoned fugitive Marc Rich and his oil trading gang and an article on recently apprehended mortgage con artist Matthew Cox on the Secret Service's Most-Wanted List. Prior to joining Fortune, she was a senior writer at Business Week Magazine, where she worked for six years. From 1996 to 1998, Marcia wrote for the New York Times. She was the chief editor of a Wall Street magazine and the founding editor of Successful Retirement Magazine in 1992.

Ms. Vickers has appeared on CNN, CNBC, "ABC News' World News Tonight," ABC's "Good Morning America," National Public Radio, among other media outlets, to discuss various issues

Her several journalism honors include the Medill/Strong Financial Writing Award. Her work was included in the book, "Best Business Crime Writing of the Year" in 2002. In 2005, she was a runner-up in the Business Journalist of the Year Awards.

Notable articles include "The Secret World of Marsh Mac". http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_44/b3906001_mz001.htm.  (BusinessWeek cover story, November 2004); "The Most Powerful Trader on Wall Street You've Never Heard Of". http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_29/b3842001_mz001.htm. about SAC Capital's Steven A. Cohen (Business Week cover, July 2003); "The Fallen Financier". http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_29/b3842001_mz001.htm.  about former NYC deputy mayor and film producer Ken Lipper (Business Week cover, December 2002); "The Rich Boys". http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_29/b3943080.htm.  about secretive network of independent oil traders (Business Week investigative report, July 2005). Ms. Vickers is also known for her humorous looks at financial booms such as "Start Your Own Hedge Fund" that chronicles a conference of hedge fund hopefuls.

Ms. Vickers is a graduate of Meredith College, a women's liberal arts college in North Carolina. She has a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where she graduated with honors. She was an adjunct professor at Columbia for four years.

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