Marcie Young Cancio

CCN Faculty Champion

Salt Lake Community College - Salt Lake City, UT

Affiliated Department(s)

Center for Community News

BIO

Salt Lake Community College - Salt Lake City, UT

Program Summary: Creates a collaborative reporting project between four different Utah institutions, where students will work together and publish stories at amplifyutah.org and other local media partners.

A veteran newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and TV/multiplatform managing editor, Marcie Young Cancio founded Amplify Utah to help bolster representative storytelling in local media through emerging and student journalism. Marcie joined Salt Lake Community College as assistant professor of journalism and digital media in 2018 after nearly two decades living and working in Washington, D.C., New York, North Carolina and California.

Bio

Salt Lake Community College - Salt Lake City, UT

Program Summary: Creates a collaborative reporting project between four different Utah institutions, where students will work together and publish stories at amplifyutah.org and other local media partners.

A veteran newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and TV/multiplatform managing editor, Marcie Young Cancio founded Amplify Utah to help bolster representative storytelling in local media through emerging and student journalism. Marcie joined Salt Lake Community College as assistant professor of journalism and digital media in 2018 after nearly two decades living and working in Washington, D.C., New York, North Carolina and California.