Overview
- CBS confirmed the move on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings, with plans for Dokoupil to debut with a cross-country kickoff tour.
- He replaces departing co-anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, ending a short-lived dual-anchor experiment that coincided with ratings declines.
- Weiss led a search that explored outside stars including CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Fox News’ Bret Baier, but contract limits steered the network to an internal promotion.
- The anchor change comes as Weiss reshapes CBS News, highlighted by the hiring of ABC’s Matt Gutman as chief correspondent and other staffing and programming shifts.
- Dokoupil, 44, becomes the youngest primetime broadcast anchor and the show’s sixth leader in a decade, a choice that revives debate over his 2024 Ta-Nehisi Coates interview that drew an internal reprimand and outside support.