Overview
- The broadcast published five guiding principles, including promises to work for viewers, report plainly, present strong voices across issues, embrace new platforms, and state “We love America.”
- In a New Year’s video, Dokoupil pledged, “you come first,” asserting independence from advertisers, politicians and CBS’s corporate owners, and committing to transparency and equal standards.
- He cited legacy media’s trust deficit and named coverage shortfalls on topics such as NAFTA, the Iraq War, Russiagate, COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden’s laptop and the president’s fitness for office.
- Dokoupil takes over Jan. 5 with a 10-city “Live From America” launch beginning in San Francisco, with scheduled stops including Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
- The relaunch follows internal unrest after editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled a completed 60 Minutes segment, as the ratings-trailing newscast draws mixed public reaction to its reset.