Anthony Mason Biography

Anthony Mason is an award winning journalist currently working as a senior culture and senior national correspondent for CBS News. Mason is a frequent contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning,” and his work appears across a variety of CBS News programs and platforms. He joined the network in 1986.

Anthony Mason Career

Mason is one of the most experienced and versatile correspondents in television news. He was a co-host of “CBS This Morning” (now “CBS Mornings”) from 2019 to 2021. Before that, he was a co-host of “CBS This Morning: Saturday” (now “CBS Saturday Morning”) for seven years. In addition, Mason has interviewed Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. He has also profiled Federal Reserve Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker. Furthermore, Mason is known best for his interviews with most prominent musicians like Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Adele, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Cher, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. He has also profiled performers Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Goldblum, Emily Blunt, Kate Winslet and Scarlett Johansson.

At CBS News, Mason has reported on major national and international news events and reported on major events from more than 40 countries, including the rise of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, the Iran-Iraq war, and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Additionally, he led CBS News’ coverage of the 75th anniversary of D-Day including President Trump’s live address from the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Omaha Beach in France surrounding the commemoration of the D-Day program.

Mason covered elections for CBS News, providing exit poll analysis during the primaries and on election night for more than a decade.

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He began his career at CBS News in 1986 and quickly made a mark as a journalist reporting from around the globe. Mason got assigned to the London bureau from 1987 to 1990. In 1989, he was the first journalist to report on the exodus of East German refugees through Hungary as the Iron Curtain began to crack. Moreover, Mason followed the story to Czechoslovakia and Poland as their communist governments collapsed. His work on the story won him the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award presented to CBS News for its coverage of Eastern Europe.

Mason was CBS News’ chief Moscow correspondent from 1991 to 1993, where he reported on the coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the demise of the Soviet Union, coverage which earned him an Emmy Award.

Furthermore, Mason worked as CBS News’ business correspondent from 1998 to 2016. His series “Life and Debt in America,” aired on the “CBS Evening News” in early 2008, saw him earn one of the seven Emmy Awards he has earned in his career.

Besides the Emmy Awards, his series on crime writers profiling more than 40 of them over a decade earned him the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America. And he won a James Beard Award for “The Dish” segment on “CBS Saturday Morning.”

Before joining CBS News, Mason worked at KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma; WCAU-TV in Philadelphia; and WCBS-TV in New York City, New York.

Mason attended St George’s School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. He graduated a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Georgetown University in 1980. He resides in Manhattan, New York with his wife Christina and three children.

Anthony Mason Age

Mason was born in New York City, New York on 23 June, 1956 and is now 68 years old as of 2024.

Anthony Mason Height

He stand at an approximate height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.

Anthony Mason Education

Mason attended St George’s School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. He graduated a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Georgetown University in 1980.

Anthony Mason Family

He was born and raised in New York City, New York. There is no information about his parents or siblings. However, will update as soon as the information is available.

Anthony Mason Wife

Mason tied the knot with his wife Christina Anne Unhoch in 1994. She previously worked as a translator for Interfax News Agency in Moscow when Mason was situated in Russia as a chief correspondent for CBS. He was previously married to his first wife advice columnist Amy Dickinson from 1986 to 1990.

Anthony Mason Children

He is a father of three children, a son and a daughter with his current wife Christina and another daughter from his first marriage to Amy Dickinson called Emily Mason.