Mark McEwen

Mark McEwen has served as co-anchor of CBS News This Morning since its debut in August 1996. He had been affiliated with This Morning since its premiere in 1987, contributing news features and interviews, and serving as the weather reporter. McEwen was named entertainment editor in November 1992, after having been the popular music editor for the broadcast since April 1988. McEwen had been the weather reporter on CBS News' previous morning broadcast, The Morning Program (January-November 1987).

Before joining CBS News, he was co-host of the WNEW-FM New York morning radio show for more than three years. McEwen has interviewed many prominent newsmakers, including President Bill Clinton, former President George Bush, former President Gerald Ford, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Sidney Poitier, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Garth Brooks, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Joni Mitchell. He has covered events such as the Oscars, the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe Awards, the Grammy Awards, and the Country Music Association Awards for This Morning.

McEwen also served as host for one of CBS News' critically acclaimed Class Of 2000 primetime specials (January 1997) and hosted the 1996 Emmy Award-winning special Tony Bennet: Live By Request on the Lifetime cable channel. McEwen was named one of the country's "Ten Most Trusted TV News Personalities" in a TV Guide survey in February 1995.

He was also awarded the Country Music Association's award for Electronic Media Journalist of the Year in 1992. McEwen has contributed to CBS News' 48 Hours and reported from Albertville, France and Lillehammer, Norway during CBS Sports' coverage of the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Winter Games. He was born September 16, 1954 in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Berlin, Germany; Montgomery, Alabama, and Crownsville, Maryland. He attended the University of Maryland.