The HistoryMakers video oral history with Paul Mason.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 14 min., 32 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318068
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Paul Mason
Paul Mason
Other authors / contributors:Mason, Paul, 1955- interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2005 February 4.
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Summary:Professor and television news producer Paul Stanley Mason was born on September 14, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his B.A. degree in classical civilizations in 1977 from Wesleyan University and his M.S. degree from Columbia University in 1981. Mason began his twenty-three year career with ABC News working the assignment desk and as an off-air reporter for the network. He served as operations producer for Good Morning America and as field producer for ABC News' Miami bureau. In 1989, he was assigned to World News Tonight. He was a producer for Primetime Live. In 1998, Mason taught journalism at the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley. He continued to produce segments for 20/20 and Primetime Live. Mason served as executive producer of Primetime Live and World News Tonight Saturday and Sunday. In 2004, Mason was promoted to senior vice president of ABC News.