Tony Dokoupil is predicted to maneuver from mornings to evenings at CBS Information.
Dokoupil, presently the co-host of “CBS Mornings,” has signed a brand new deal to take over as anchor of “CBS Night Information,” based on a number of folks briefed on the matter who weren’t approved to remark publicly. One particular person mentioned an announcement is predicted as quickly as this week.
A consultant for CBS Information declined remark. Dokoupil, 44, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
The information division’s signature program is predicted to return to a solo anchor format after pairing John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois over the final yr. Each Dickerson and DuBois are departing CBS Information later this month.
The appointment of Dokoupil wouldn’t level to a serious change in route on the program. Dokoupil, who has been with CBS Information since 2016 after three years at NBC, grew to become co-host at CBS Mornings in 2019.
Bari Weiss, the just lately appointed editor in chief at CBS Information, reportedly expressed a want to herald an outdoor title, together with Bret Baier, the Washington-based anchor at conservative-leaning Fox Information. CNN’s Anderson Cooper was additionally mentioned internally, however he selected to signal a brand new take care of his community.
The Free Press, the digital information web site co-founded by Weiss and purchased by Paramount, vigorously defended Dokoupil final yr when he was on the middle of controversy over an aggressive on-air interview he performed with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates final yr.
Dokoupil was admonished in an editorial assembly for the way he questioned Coates about his new e book, “The Message,” which examines the Israel-Gaza battle. CBS Information management mentioned on the decision that the interview didn’t meet the corporate’s editorial requirements after receiving a variety of complaints from staffers.
A recording of the assembly was posted on the Free Press web site.
“It’s journalists like Tony Dokoupil who’re an endangered species in legacy information organizations, that are wilting to the pressures of this new elite consensus,” the editors of the Free Press wrote on the matter.
Shari Redstone, the previous majority shareholder in CBS Information mother or father Paramount, additionally publicly expressed her help for Dokoupil on the time. She mentioned CBS Information executives made “a foul mistake” of their dealing with of the matter. Each executives who led the editorial name, Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark, are now not with the community.
