Amie Parnes

Amie Parnes is Senior White House Correspondent for The Hill. Prior to taking this assignment in December of 2011, she covered the White House, the 2008 campaign trail and the Senate for Politico during a four-year stint.

She began her time in Washington as a regional reporter covering the Florida congressional delegation for Scripps Howard News Service in 2005 after leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer where she was a general assignment reporter. Amie began her career as an intern at the New York Times Miami Bureau.
She is the NY Times best-selling co-author of HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton.

Peter Kiernan

Peter D. Kiernan, award-winning bestselling author, is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and advisor to businesses, non-profits and government. After a multi-decade Wall Street career, he left in 2000 to pursue venture capital start-ups, nonprofit work and writing. A 25 year Robin Hood Foundation board member, and past Chair and President of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation; he has served on the boards of numerous hospitals, colleges, graduate schools, disability and poverty fighting organizations and charter school initiatives and currently serves on the Al Smith Foundation. A frequent contributor on TV talk shows, radio programs and public speaking forums; Kiernan’s last book, Becoming China’s Bitch won the International Book Award and was a New York Times Bestseller. He holds an MBA from Darden at UVa where he sits on the President’s Advisory Group; and a BA from Williams College and lives in New England with his family.

His latest book “American Mojo: Lost and Found” is a penetrating look at how America has let its core middle class founder and how we are preventing this resilient majority from achieving their destiny.  

"Bernie & Sid"

Bernard J. McGuirk is the executive producer of the Imus in the Morning radio program. He was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York, where he worked in his younger years as a taxi driver.

Sid Rosenberg is a radio personality and the former morning host of WMEN-640 AM.  Rosenberg is known for his controversial and sarcastic humor as a host on many radio stations including, WAXY "790 The Ticket" in Miami, where he hosted his own morning show.  He originally was paired with O.J. McDuffie, formerly a wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins; McDuffie resigned his position with the station in the summer of 2006.

Rosenberg's self-given jokingly middle name "Arthur" is a reference to former baseball player Dave Kingman. When Hall of Fame sportscaster Bob Murphy gave the lineups for the New York Mets, he would always give Kingman's name as "David Arthur Kingman"; Rosenberg continues this running gag on the Sports Guys by using Arthur as everybody's middle name.

His radio career started in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he hosted the syndicated sports radio program The Drive on Sports Fan Radio Network in the late 1990s, after starting as an Internet broadcast. In 2000, he moved to New York City to co-host WNEW-FM's turbulent morning show, the Sports Guys. A year later, he joined the Imus in the Morning program. He shared the sports broadcasting duties with Warner Wolf before becoming the full-time sports reporter. He engaged in heated half-mock, half-serious disputes with the other members of the Imus cast, leading for example to an actual boxing bout with producer Bernard McGuirk.  Several months after joining the Imus show, he became the co-host of the midday show on Imus' flagship station, WFAN. Here, his strong knowledge of sports and distinctive, high-pitched Brooklyn accent served him well. He would hold both broadcasting positions until 2005. For several years, he also hosted the radio pre-game shows for New York Giants home games.

Dara Berger

Dara Berger is a documentary filmmaker who is currently working on a film about how to prevent chronic illness in children through her production company, Say It Out Loud Productions, which produces films on meaningful issues. Dara served as a board member and co-chair of the programming committee for the National Autism Association New York Metro chapter for six years. She has recently completed the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s health coach certificate program, which she hopes to use to help other families prevent chronic illness and autism in their children.

Anthony Mason

Anthony Mason, 59, 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.