[4] On October 25, CBS News announced that Jeff Glor would become the permanent weekday anchor.
Mason serves as a main correspondent and occasional substitute for CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley.
For most of the second half of 2017, he was absent from the broadcast due to his interim anchor position on CBS Evening News.
In 1985, Mason won the New York Associated Press Award for General Excellence of Individual Reporting on Vietnam Veterans.
[1] Mason has been married to Christina Anne Unhoch since 1994, and they have a daughter and son, residing in Manhattan.