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| - Marcia Vickers is a former print journalist who heads a research company. She was a senior writer at Fortune Magazine until January 2011, and is an advisor at Blue Heron Research Partners, a firm she co-founded in 2005. She became a partner at TMC Media in January 2011. 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.[citation needed] Vickers has appeared on CNN, CNBC, "ABC News' World News Tonight," ABC's "Good Morning America," National Public Radio, among other media outlets.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] Her articles include The Secret World of Marsh Mac. (BusinessWeek cover story, November 2004); The Most Powerful Trader on Wall Street You've Never Heard Of.about SAC Capital's Steven A. Cohen (Business Week cover, July 2003); The Fallen Financier. about former NYC deputy mayor and film producer Ken Lipper (Business Week cover, December 2002); The Rich Boys. about secretive network of independent oil traders (Business Week investigative report, July 2005). 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.[citation needed]
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