Overview
- Dokoupil takes over the CBS Evening News on Jan. 5 with a cross-country Live From America rollout, starting in San Francisco before stops including Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
- He vows to put viewers ahead of advertisers, politicians and corporate owners, explicitly naming Paramount Skydance leadership and David Ellison, saying, “I report for you.”
- CBS published five guiding principles, led by “We work for you” and including commitments to direct, corrective reporting, respect for viewers, a stated “We love America” stance and reaching audiences on TV and social platforms.
- The relaunch follows internal turbulence under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, including her decision to pull a completed 60 Minutes piece on migrants sent to an El Salvador prison, a move a correspondent criticized as political; the segment has not aired in the U.S.
- The broadcast remains a distant third in the evening-news ratings and is on its sixth anchor in a decade, drawing skepticism on social media that Dokoupil addressed directly by promising greater accountability and transparency.