Will Tony Dokoupil be the next anchor of 'CBS Evening News'?

Tony Dokoupil is expected to determination from mornings to evenings astatine CBS News.

Dokoupil, presently the co-host of “CBS Mornings,” has signed a caller woody to instrumentality implicit arsenic anchor of “CBS Evening News,” according to respective radical briefed connected the substance who were not authorized to remark publicly. One idiosyncratic said an announcement is expected arsenic soon arsenic this week.

A typical for CBS News declined comment. Dokoupil, 44, did not respond to a petition for comment.

The quality division’s signature programme is expected to instrumentality to a solo anchor format aft pairing John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois implicit the past year. Both Dickerson and DuBois are departing CBS News aboriginal this month.

The assignment of Dokoupil would not constituent to a large alteration successful absorption astatine the program. Dokoupil, who has been with CBS News since 2016 aft 3 years astatine NBC, became co-host astatine CBS Mornings successful 2019.

Bari Weiss, the precocious appointed exertion successful main astatine CBS News, reportedly expressed a tendency to bring successful an extracurricular name, including Bret Baier, the Washington-based anchor astatine conservative-leaning Fox News. CNN’s Anderson Cooper was besides discussed internally, but helium chose to motion a caller woody with his network.

The Free Press, the integer quality tract co-founded by Weiss and acquired by Paramount, vigorously defended Dokoupil past twelvemonth erstwhile helium was astatine the halfway of contention implicit an assertive on-air interrogation helium conducted with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates past year.

Dokoupil was admonished successful an editorial gathering for however helium questioned Coates astir his caller book, “The Message,” which examines the Israel-Gaza conflict. CBS News enactment said connected the telephone that the interrogation did not conscionable the company’s editorial standards aft receiving a fig of complaints from staffers.

A signaling of the gathering was posted connected the Free Press site.

“It is journalists similar Tony Dokoupil who are an endangered taxon successful bequest quality organizations, which are wilting to the pressures of this caller elite consensus,” the editors of the Free Press wrote connected the matter.

Shari Redstone, the erstwhile bulk shareholder successful CBS News genitor Paramount, besides publically expressed her enactment for Dokoupil astatine the time. She said CBS News executives made “a atrocious mistake” successful their handling of the matter. Both executives who led the editorial call, Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark, are nary longer with the network.