Linda Mason, the first female producer to work for CBS Evening News, has died at the age of 84. The network news pioneer died peacefully while surrounded by family on the night of Oct. 28, CBS reported.
Mason, who worked for CBS for 47 years, started off working at the network as a radio desk assistant in 1966 before becoming the first female producer of CBS Evening News. She worked alongside legendary anchors Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather and went on to hold many high-profile positions at CBS News, including as a senior producer for CBS Evening News, executive producer of CBS Sunday Morning, vice president of public affairs and head of CBS News’ standards department.
While working on CBS Sunday Morning, Mason covered many important historical events, including President Ronald Reagan‘s first trip to the Soviet Union, the funeral of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and the tension in China before the uprising in Tiananmen Square.
The trailblazing figure, who was a New York native, also served as executive producer for the documentary series CBS Reports and worked on various projects, including two primetime specials, “60 Minutes … 25 Years” and “60 Minutes at 30,” which looked back on the Sunday night program’s history.
Over the span of her long career, Mason won 13 Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, CBS further reported.
Before her work with CBS, Mason earned a B.A. degree with honors in international relations from Brown University in 1964, and in 1991, she was honored with the school’s William Rogers Award, after being voted the outstanding Brown alumnus of the year. Mason also received her M.S. degree in filmmaking from Syracuse University in 1965.
Beyond her work in news, Mason became an author, publishing her 2023 memoir, Speak Up: Breaking the Glass Ceiling at CBS News.
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