Overview
- Dokoupil takes over on Jan. 5 with a first broadcast from San Francisco, launching a 10-city Live From America tour running through Jan. 16.
- In a New Year message, he said legacy outlets lost public trust and cited NAFTA, the Iraq War, Russiagate, COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden’s laptop and the president’s fitness for office as examples of missed coverage.
- He vowed that viewers come before advertisers, politicians and corporate owners, promising transparency, timely disclosures of sourcing and corrections, and equal standards for all public figures.
- CBS released five guiding principles for the relaunch, emphasizing audience-first reporting, forthright updates and corrections, a full range of voices, an openly pro–American ethos, and distribution across TV and social platforms.
- The reset follows Weiss’s recent editorial moves, including pulling a 60 Minutes segment that spurred internal backlash, and Dokoupil’s message prompted immediate, sharply divided reactions on social media.