Marcia Vickers

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.
Vickers has appeared on CNN, CNBC, "ABC News' World News Tonight," ABC's "Good Morning America," National Public Radio, among other media outlets.
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.
Her articles include (BusinessWeek cover story, November 2004); about SAC Capital's Steven A. Cohen (Business Week cover, July 2003); about former NYC deputy mayor and film producer Ken Lipper (Business Week cover, December 2002); 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.

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