Anthony Mason Biography

Fast Facts

• His work on the story about the collapse of communist governments in Easter Europe won CBS News the Alfred I․ DuPont-Columbia University Journalism Award
• In 1985, he won the New York Associated Press award for General Excellence of Individual Reporting on Vietnam veterans
• Profiled over 40 crime writers over a decade, a project for which he won the Raven award from the Mystery Writers of America
• Won the Pennsylvania Associated Press Award for best feature story while working for WCAU-TV
• Earned his B․A․ in English with a minor in government from Georgetown University in 1980
• In 1980, he was hired as a general assignment and political reporter for KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Okla․, his first job in broadcast journalism
• Has made frequent contributions of cultural stories to "CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood․"
• Has reported from over 30 countries including Russia and the United Kingdom
• Started working for CBS News as a reporter in 1986 and rose to the rank of senior business and economics correspondent and co-host of "CBS This Morning: Saturday․"
• Was the first journalist to report on the exodus of East German refugees through Hungary in 1989