Mark Lima Named VP and Washington Bureau Chief
Mary Hager, Executive Producer of “Face the Nation,” Adds Executive Editor of Politics to Her Role
Matthew Mosk Named Senior Investigative Editorial Director Based in Washington
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CBS News made several key appointments in the Washington bureau today, including naming Mark Lima vice president and Washington bureau chief; appointing Mary Hager, executive producer of FACE THE NATION, to the additional role of executive editor of politics; and naming Matthew Mosk senior investigative editorial director. The news was announced today by Neeraj Khemlani, president and co-head of CBS News and Stations.
“We are investing in the future of CBS News by continuing to strengthen
our newsgathering and investigative reporting – much of which originates out of Washington,” said Khemlani. “We are putting together a strong team ahead of the midterms and presidential elections, who will bring a fresh multiplatform perspective to their respective areas and continue to make CBS News a destination for top political reporting and exclusive investigations.”“Holding leaders accountable and raising the questions that go to the heart of the issues important to our viewers is how we can have the most impact. This team will help fuel our in-depth coverage emanating from Washington across all of our programs and platforms,” said Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, executive vice president of newsgathering for CBS News.
Mark X. Lima, an accomplished, multiplatform news executive and award-winning journalist, will assume his new role as vice president and Washington bureau chief for CBS News on Jan. 17. Lima, who currently serves as CBS News’ West Coast bureau chief, brings more than two decades of experience steering innovative and evolving newsrooms to this position. As West Coast bureau chief, Lima played a key role in the Network’s California political coverage and was a proven manager and collaborator across the organization. Mark distinguished himself in senior roles across the news industry, including 15 years at ABC News and seven years at Univision/Fusion.
Mary Hager, who has served as the executive producer of FACE THE NATION for more than a decade, expands her role to assume editorial oversight over politics. Hager is being named executive producer of FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN and executive editor for politics, where she will lend her extraordinary expertise to all of CBS News’ political reporting moving forward. She has been with the CBS News Washington bureau since 1991.
Matthew Mosk, a veteran investigative reporter, joins CBS News on Feb. 7 as senior investigative editorial director, leading the investigative unit based in Washington, D.C. Mosk spent the past 12 years at ABC News, where he was a senior investigative producer overseeing enterprise reporting about Washington and politics, including during the past three presidential campaigns. He helped lead ABC News’ Washington-based team, covering the Mueller investigation and Trump impeachments, and served as the senior investigative producer on the 2021 Hulu documentary “Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier.” Prior to ABC News, Mosk spent 10 years at the Washington Post, and had reporting assignments at the Baltimore Sun, Washington Times and LA Times. He brings to CBS News nearly 30 years of experience in print, digital, audio, broadcast and streaming journalism.
Lorna Jones continues as deputy bureau chief of the Washington bureau, a role she has held since 2020 after serving as managing editor in Washington.
Dell Williams will step in as the interim West Coast bureau chief; he has served as the deputy bureau chief for the West Coast bureau since last fall, and joined CBS News in April 2014.
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Mark Lima
Mark Lima joined CBS News in 2020 as West Coast bureau chief. During his time leading the bureau, CBS News covered major stories of national importance, including the California recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom, California’s deadly wildfire seasons of 2021 and 2020, and the general election of 2020.
Prior to joining CBS News in 2020, Lima worked at Univision/Fusion, where since 2013 he served as vice president of news, overseeing news coverage and impact programming in English for Univision/Fusion. While there, he served as the executive producer of the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning weekly Facebook Watch program “Real America with Jorge Ramos,” which pushed the boundary of multiplatform and digital storytelling and featured prominent political interviews ahead of the 2020 election, with candidates including Joe Biden, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Julian Castro. In 2016, Lima was an executive producer of Fusion’s prescient Emmy-nominated documentary “The Naked Truth: Trumpland,” an in-depth look at Trump voters across the country ahead of the election. He also coordinated Fusion/Univision’s coverage of President Obama’s visit to Cuba and daily coverage of the 2016 political conventions.
Before joining Univision/Fusion, Lima worked at ABC News for 15 years, most recently as a senior producer at Nightline where he participated in coordinating coverage of key special events, including Nightline’s coverage of former President Barack Obama’s 2008 inauguration and the network’s 2012 election night coverage. He also produced affiliate coverage of the 2000 political conventions as well as election night coverage from the Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, and the subsequent recount from Tallahassee, Fla.
Lima served as ABC News’ deputy bureau chief in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2008, and was the director of sports and special projects at ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate newsgathering service.
Lima has been honored with the Peabody Award and multiple News Emmys. He is a graduate of Penn State University.
Mary Hager
Mary Hager has served as executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning and #1 Sunday morning public affairs program FACE THE NATION since 2011, working with moderators Bob Schieffer, John Dickerson and Margaret Brennan. Prior to becoming executive producer, Hager was the broadcast’s senior producer. Hager has covered virtually every presidential campaign, convention and election night over the past 30 years, in capacities ranging from embed to anchor producer to executive producer of midterm coverage. She spent more than 15 years as CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer’s producer.
Hager began her career at CBS News in 1991 as a researcher in the CBS News political unit, and from there moved to Capitol Hill to work with Schieffer as Senate producer in 1993. In 1999, she moved to the Atlanta bureau, working with CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts covering the southeast and 2000 campaign, including the presidential recount in Tallahassee.
In 2001, Hager returned to Washington as a producer on CBS EVENING NEWS, where she spent eight years covering Congress, politics, the 2004 Kerry campaign, and the George W. Bush White House. She moved to FACE THE NATION in 2009.
Hager is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Matthew Mosk
Matthew Mosk joins CBS News on Feb. 7 after spending 12 years as an investigative producer at ABC News.
While at ABC News, Mosk helped cover three presidential elections and has overseen enterprise reporting about Washington and politics. He helped lead ABC News’ Washington-based team covering the Mueller investigation and Trump impeachments, and served as the senior investigative producer on the 2021 Hulu documentary “Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier.”
Mosk has produced reports on a broad range of topics, including the role of money in politics, allegations of corruption in the department of homeland security’s investment visa program, shortcomings of criminal ankle-monitoring technology, a string of China-based investment frauds that cost Americans billions, and, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a report on the role prestigious doctors played in helping coal companies deprive ailing miners of black lung disability benefits.
Before ABC News, Mosk spent 10 years covering local, state and national politics for the Washington Post. He has also worked as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun, the [Bergen County] Record and the Washington Times. As a cub reporter with the Los Angeles Times, he profiled Ron Goldman, who was murdered alongside O.J. Simpson’s wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and helped chronicle the devastation of the Northridge earthquake.
His work has been recognized with the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Business Reporting, the White House Correspondents Association’s Edgar A. Poe Award, and four Emmy Awards.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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