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Anthony Mason is an American broadcast journalist. Mason is a co-host of “CBS This Morning.” Previously, he was the co-host of “CBS This Morning Saturday”. He is also a frequent contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning” and his work appears across a variety of CBS News programs and platforms. He has worked as a reporter, anchor, and correspondent for CBS News since 1986. Mason joined CBS News as a correspondent in 1986. He was the London Bureau correspondent between 1987 and 1990. Between 1991 and 1993, Mason was the CBS News Chief Moscow, Russia, Correspondent.

Mason contributed the award-winning coverage of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt from Moscow, Russia. He was working in New York City since 1993. He was named the CBS News Business Correspondent in 1998. In early 2012 Mason became the co-anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday, and in 2019 became a co-host of the popular CBS This Morning weekday program. On May 31, 2017, CBS News announced that Mason would become the interim anchor for the weekday editions of the CBS Evening News, replacing Scott Pelley.

Prior to joining CBS News, Mason worked at KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also served for two years at then-CBS-owned WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, and at WCBS-TV in New York City. In 1985, Mason won the New York Associated Press Award for General Excellence of Individual Reporting on Vietnam Veterans. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement by a Reporter and the Pennsylvania Associated Press Award for Best Feature Story. Mason attended St. George’s School, in Middletown, Rhode Island. He graduated from the Georgetown University In Washington, D.C, in 1980.