Following months of rumors, CBS News’s parent company Paramount Skydance announced Wednesday that CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil will become the new anchor of the CBS Evening News on January 5, signifying editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s biggest gamble yet, the network’s most serious attempt to break out of a lifetime in third place, and the most concrete effort to nudge a legacy newscast back to the center since the days of Jeff Glor from December 2017 to May 2019.
Dokoupil will take the top job from longtime CBS News journalist John Dickerson and former CBS New York anchor Maurice DuBois, who lasted less than a year and suffered from criticism over its format, plummeting ratings, and rampantly smug liberal bias.
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