Overview
- Multiple outlets report that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski have selected CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil to anchor CBS Evening News.
- Sources say CBS aims to announce the move soon and that Dokoupil would begin in the new year, with fill-in anchors used until he takes the chair.
- Maurice DuBois has said his final broadcast is Dec. 18 and John Dickerson leaves at year’s end, while a CBS executive has disputed claims that DuBois’s announcement was “rogue.”
- Reporting says CBS explored external stars including Bret Baier and Anderson Cooper but could not secure them due to contracts and constraints.
- Separately, Weiss and Cibrowski have signed Matt Gutman as a high-profile correspondent after his ABC contract expired, a hire noted for both accolades and past on-air errors.