Marcia Young (née Williams) is a Canadian broadcast journalist, who is the current weekday anchor of World Report, the national morning newscast on CBC Radio.
[1] Young was born in Toronto, but spent her early childhood in Jamaica where she was raised by her grandparents.
She then worked behind the microphone as a researcher and production coordinator for Life Network, on one of the first magazine lifestyle shows in Canada.
She subsequently landed gigs as a local television news reporter in Toronto, Saskatoon and Regina.
She has also been a frequent host for community and charity-based organizations in the Greater Toronto Area including Design Hope Toronto's charity auction for Dixon Hall, the Osu Children's Library Fund, the Jamaican Canadian Association Scholarship Awards, the Applause Institute's Black Cotillion Ball, Jamaica College Old Boys' Association of Canada, CareerEdge Organization and the African Canadian Achievement Awards.