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Tony Dokoupil Takes Over as CBS Evening News Anchor
Tony Dokoupil took his place at the anchor desk of the ‘CBS Evening News’ on Monday, as the troubled news division undergoes reinvention under its new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Dokoupil was supposed to start his run with a trip to 10 cities across the U.S., to connect with viewers outside of the media centers of New York and Washington, but the plan was delayed due to a major story in Venezuela.
Dokoupil’s new role will be the first major test for Weiss, who came to the division with no previous experience in television or with running a massive journalism operation. Choosing on-air talent who help drive ratings for the network is considered the most critical task for a TV news executive.
Changes at CBS Evening News
Dokoupil, 45, follows the duo of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, who co-anchored ‘CBS Evening News’ for a year. The program tried to bring more in-depth pieces to the typically fast-paced network evening news format, but it lost viewers and put CBS further behind ‘ABC World News Tonight With David Muir’ and ‘NBC Nightly News With Tom Llamas.’.
Dokoupil’s arrival marks the fifth anchor change at the ‘CBS Evening News’ since 2017. NBC has made one change since then, while Muir has been in his role at ABC since 2014. CBS News promoted Dokoupil’s launch with a whimsical social media video that showed the journalist presenting a piece of paper with his name written on it to commuters at Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Dokoupil’s Approach and Cronkite’s Legacy
Dokoupil also issued a video message last Thursday suggesting organizations such as CBS News are no longer reliable sources of information for much of the public. ‘The point is, on too many stories the press has missed the story,’ he added. ‘Because we’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you.’.
Dokoupil’s claim prompted a response from Michael Socolow, a journalism professor at the University of Maine and the son of Sandy Socolow, who produced Cronkite’s broadcast. Socolow noted how Cronkite believed the public should be skeptical of what it saw on TV news and take in other sources and points of view.
Controversy at CBS News
The latest change at ‘CBS Evening News’ also follows one of the most tumultuous periods in the long history of CBS News. The organization was shaken by the Dec. 20 decision by Weiss to pull a ’60 Minutes’ piece on the harsh El Salvador mega-prison the U.S. government is using to hold undocumented migrants.
Weiss believed the story needed more reporting, including an on-camera response from Trump White House officials. The decision to yank the announced segment the day before it was scheduled to air led ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi to claim in an email to colleagues that the decision was political. Alfonsi’s reporting did show up on Canada’s Global TV service, which had been given a feed of the program before the change was made, an embarrassing operational error by CBS News.
