Frank Rich

Frank Rich joined New York magazine in June 2011 as Writer-at-Large, covering politics and culture. He is also a commentator on nymag.com, engaging in regular dialogues on the news of the week.

Rich joined the magazine following a distinguished career at the New York Times, where he had been an op-ed columnist since 1994. He was previously the paper’s chief drama critic, from 1980 to 1993. His weekly 1,500-word essay helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the Times introduced in the Sunday “Week in Review” section in 2005. From 2003 to 2005, Rich had been the front-page columnist for the Sunday “Arts & Leisure” section as part of that section's redesign and expansion. He also served as senior adviser to the Times’s culture editor on the paper's overall cultural-news report. From 1999 to 2003, he was also senior writer for The New York Times Magazine. The dual title was a first for the Times. 

Rich has written about culture and politics for many national publications. He won the George Polk Award for commentary in 2005. His books include Ghost Light: A Memoir and, most recently, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina. Since 2008 Rich has also been a creative consultant to HBO, where he is an executive producer of the Emmy-winning comedy Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and executive produced the Peabody Award-winning documentary Six by Sondheim as well as the forthcoming documentary Becoming Mike Nichols.

A native of Washington, D.C., and graduate of Harvard, he lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Alex Witchel.

Anthony Mason

Anthony Mason is host of CBS This Morning: Saturday and CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent. He is also a frequent contributor of cultural stories to the CBS News Sunday Morning broadcast. Mason has spent more than 35 years as a television journalist. In three decades as a correspondent for CBS News, he has reported from more than 30 countries and won nine Emmy Awards.
 
Born in New York City, Mason moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma after graduating from Georgetown University in 1980 to take a job at KJRH-TV. That led to stints at WCAU in Philadelphia and WCBS in New York, He joined CBS News in 1986.
 
Assigned to the London Bureau from 1987-1990, Mason traveled extensively for the next four years. He went into Afghanistan with the Mujahedeen guerillas to cover the Soviet pullout; reported from Pakistan on the assassination of General Zia ul Haq and the rise of Benazir Bhutto; and went to the front in the Iran-Iraq war to witness Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons on the Kurds. He also covered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
 
In 1989, he was the first journalist to report on the exodus of East German refugees through Hungary as the Iron Curtain began to crack. He followed the story to Czechoslovakia and Poland as their communist governments collapsed. His work earned Mason the prestigious DuPont Columbia Award.
 
From 1991 to 1993, Mason was CBS News’ chief Moscow correspondent, where he reported on the coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the demise of the Soviet Union, coverage which won him an Emmy Award.
 
Mason was named Business Correspondent in 1998. His series, “Life and Debt in America,” which aired on the CBS Evening News in early 2008, underscored some of the problems that ultimately led to the financial crisis and won him and another Emmy. At the end of 2008, the business website Marketwatch.com named him the “Broadcast journalist of the year.” Marketwatch.com’s media critic wrote that Mason “personified a dying art in the media today: explanatory journalism. Night after night, Mason took pains to help his viewers understand what was unfolding on Wall Street and in Washington – and, most important, why they should care.”
 
As a regular contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning, Mason hosts the program’s annual Money show. He has also profiled politicians (Bill Clinton), business leaders (Henry Paulson), and musicians (Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards.) His series on crime writers (he profiled more than 40 of them over a decade) won the Raven award from the Mystery Writers of America.
 
For the past decade, Mason has also been involved in election coverage for CBS providing exit poll analysis during the primaries and on election night.
 
Anthony Mason is a graduate of St. George’s School and Georgetown University (B.A. 1980) He and his wife, Christina have 3 children and live in New York City.

"Bo Dietl"

Richard “Bo” Dietl was a New York City Police Officer and Detective from June 1969 until he retired in 1985.  Bo was one of the most highly decorated detectives in the history of the police department, with several thousand arrests to his credit.  There were two particular cases that represent his career highlights.  The first was what former New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch labeled “...the most vicious crime in New York City history” (1981) which involved a nun who was raped and tortured in an East Harlem convent as 27 crosses were carved into her by two men, who later confessed and were convicted.  The second was the Palm Sunday Massacre in 1984, which was one of New York City’s most bloody mass slayings, of ten people.  Bo was instrumental in the arrest and conviction of the suspects in both cases.

In 1986, Bo was nominated for the U.S. Congress by the Republican and Conservative parties of New York State for the 6th Congressional District (to fill the seat of the late Joseph Addabbo). In a 7-1 Democratic District, the Rev. Floyd Flake edged out Bo by a mere 2,500 votes - one of the closest races in New York history. 

President George Bush appointed Bo as Co-Chairman of the National Crime Commission.  Governor George E. Pataki appointed Bo Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council.  He served as Security Consultant to the National Republican Convention and as Director of Security for the New York State Republican Convention

Richard “Bo” Dietl is the Founder & Chairman of Beau Dietl & Associates. Founded in 1985, Beau Dietl & Associates has grown to become one of the premier investigative and security firms in the nation and is a full service organization providing a wide

Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis covers Congress and national politics for The Washington Post. He previously covered D.C. politics and government from 2007 to 2015."  DeBonis joined in Post in 2010 after spending six years at Washington City Paper as a reporter and editor, including three years writing a column on District politics. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and a native of Northwest Indiana.

Steve Serby

Steve Serby is a longtime New York Post columnist and author of two books, most notably NY Times bestseller LT: Over the Edge on Lawrence Taylor.