Tony Dokoupil

Last updated

Tony Dokoupil
Born (1980-12-24) December 24, 1980 (age 43)
Farmington, Connecticut, U.S. [1]
Alma mater George Washington University
Columbia University
Occupation(s)Journalist and television presenter
Employer CBS
Known for CBS Mornings
Spouse
​
(m. 2017)​
Children4

Tony Dokoupil [2] (born December 24, 1980) is an American broadcast journalist and author, known for his work as a co-anchor of CBS Mornings . He was also a news correspondent for CBS News and MSNBC.

Contents

Early life

Dokoupil, who is of Czech heritage, was born in Connecticut on December 24, 1980. [3] [4] His mother, Ann, worked as a teacher, while his father, Anthony, was a marijuana dealer. Growing up, Dokoupil was told of his father's involvement in real estate, which was a front. [2] [5] His family relocated to Miami shortly after he was born. [6] Dokoupil and his mother relocated back to Maryland when he was six, [2] where he attended Severna Park High School. [7] He later studied business at George Washington University, graduating first in his class, and pursued media studies at Columbia University. [4] [8] He was a talented baseball player at George Washington University, hitting over .300 in the spring of 2000. That summer, he played as an outfielder for the Bethesda Big Train in the Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League.

Career

From 2007 to 2013, Dokoupil was a senior writer at Newsweek magazine and the website The Daily Beast . [9] In September 2013, he joined NBC News as a senior writer. [10] He released a memoir titled The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana on April 1, 2014. [11] He later became a reporter on MSNBC. [4]

Following his departure from NBC News and MSNBC, Dokoupil joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent in August 2016. [9] On May 6, 2019, Dokoupil was named the new co-anchor of the morning program CBS This Morning ; [12] He made his debut on May 20. [13] The program was renamed CBS Mornings in September 2021. [14]

Personal life

Dokoupil has two children from a previous relationship. [15] He married fellow broadcast journalist Katy Tur in October 2017, [16] and they have two children together. [17] Dokoupil's two older children are living in Israel with their mother, his ex-wife. [18]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NBC News</span> News division of NBCUniversal

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's various operations report to the president of NBC News, Rebecca Blumenstein. The NBCUniversal News Group also comprises MSNBC, the network's 24-hour general news channel, business and consumer news channels CNBC and CNBC World, the Spanish language Noticias Telemundo and United Kingdom–based Sky News.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ABC News</span> News division of the American Broadcasting Company

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America, Nightline, Primetime, 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation. CBS News Radio produces hourly newscasts for hundreds of radio stations, and also oversees CBS News podcasts like The Takeout Podcast. CBS News also operates the CBS News Streaming Network, a 24-hour digital news network.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harry Smith (American journalist)</span> American television journalist

Harry Smith is a retired American television journalist who has worked for NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC as a senior correspondent. He hosted the CBS News morning programs, The Early Show and its predecessor, CBS This Morning, for seventeen years. In July 2011, Smith left CBS News to become a correspondent for NBC News and the newsmagazine Rock Center with Brian Williams. He also served as an anchor for MSNBC, conducting daytime live coverage of breaking news and events since first appearing in November 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Betty Nguyen</span> American news anchor (born 1974)

Betty Nguyen is an American news anchor, currently CBS Miami morning news co-anchor. Nguyen has previously worked for NBC News, MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, and WPIX.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Natalie Morales (journalist)</span> American journalist

Natalie Morales-Rhodes is an American journalist who is currently a co-host and moderator of the CBS Daytime talk show The Talk. Prior to that, Morales worked for NBC News for 22 years in various roles as the West Coast anchor of Today, and appeared on Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.

CBS This Morning (CTM) was an American morning television program that aired on CBS from November 30, 1987 to October 29, 1999, and again from January 9, 2012 to September 6, 2021. The program was aired from Monday through Saturday. It aired live from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. in the Eastern Time Zone. On weekdays, it aired on a tape-delay in the Central and Mountain Time Zones; stations in the Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii Time Zones received an updated feed with a specialized opening and updated live reports. Stations outside the Eastern Time Zone carried the Saturday broadcast at varied times. The two incarnations of CTM were the eighth and tenth distinct morning news-features program formats to air on CBS since 1954. On November 1, 1999, the original incarnation was replaced by The Early Show, which was replaced by the second one on January 9, 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norah O'Donnell</span> American television journalist

Norah Morahan O'Donnell is an American television journalist who is currently anchor of the CBS Evening News, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, and current host of Person to Person. She has worked with several mainstream media outlets throughout her career, including as former co-anchor of CBS This Morning, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News, and a substitute host for CBS's Sunday morning show Face the Nation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gayle King</span> American television personality and journalist

Gayle King is an American television personality, author, and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS Mornings, and before that its predecessor CBS This Morning. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.

<i>MSNBC Reports</i> American television news program

MSNBC Reports is the blanket title for the daytime rolling news programming block of the American cable news channel MSNBC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chuck Todd</span> American journalist

Charles David Todd is an American television journalist who was the 12th moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He also hosted Meet the Press Now, its daily edition on NBC News Now and is currently the Chief Political Analyst for NBC News. Before taking the helm of Meet the Press, Todd was Chief White House correspondent for NBC as well as host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. He also serves as NBC News' on-air political analyst for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Today.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kendis Gibson</span> Belizean-American journalist

Kendis Gibson is a Belizean-born American journalist. He has won two Emmy Awards for "outstanding news reporting" and "sports feature". He has been an anchor and correspondent for CNN, CBS News, ABC News, and WFOR-TV and a reporter for MSNBC. Gibson also anchored World News Now and America This Morning. He has reported on topics including the 2000 Concorde plane crash, the September 11 attacks, the Academy Awards, and the Grammy Awards. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

<i>Way Too Early</i> American television news program

Way Too Early with Jonathan Lemire is an American early morning news show that airs weekday mornings on MSNBC. The network has had shows with the title Way Too Early, both with and without the name of the host at the time, during two different time periods.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bianna Golodryga</span> American journalist (born 1978)

Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga is a Moldovan-born American news anchor and journalist. She currently co-anchors with Zain Asher the CNN global news show, One World with Zain and Bianna, airing weekdays. She previously served as a senior global affairs analyst at CNN, and was previously the news and finance anchor at Yahoo! News. Golodryga was also previously co-anchor of the weekend edition of Good Morning America and a co-host of CBS This Morning.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism</span> Annual event

The Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism is an annual event held at Tufts University. It is sponsored by the Film and Media Studies Program (FMS) at Tufts University, the Edward R. Murrow Center for the Advancement of Public Diplomacy, and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Dedicated to illuminating aspects of the many contributions Edward R. Murrow made to journalism and public diplomacy, the Forum brings together interdisciplinary panels to reflect on Murrow’s legacy and relate it to contemporary issues in journalism. The Forum debuted in 2006 with former Nightline host Ted Koppel serving as the keynote speaker and moderator examining the contemporary state of the news business. In 2007 retired CBS News anchor Dan Rather led a panel discussing the coverage of war and conflicts. In 2008 former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and panelists explored the current state of political coverage. The 2009 panel was headlined by MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews, along with former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis, and Janet Wu, WCVB-TV’s political reporter discussing the press’ role in encouraging or discouraging people from seeking public office. In 2010 panelists Casey Murrow, author Lynne Olson, and producer/Massachusetts ACLU Vice President Arnie Reisman discussed Murrow and his efforts to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy after the blacklist and the contemporary state of blacklisting, self-censorship, and political redlines for the media. In 2011 panelists Katie Couric and Jonathan Tisch discussed Couric's career as well as the state of journalism in a social media and technology-driven world. In 2012 panelists Brian Williams and Jonathan Tisch discussed Williams's career and tactics, opportunities, and challenges of covering campaigns in 2012. The 2013 forum featured Christiane Amanpour discussing the evolving role of foreign correspondents, while Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington examined the changing face of journalism in the digital age for the 2014 forum. In 2015, ABC News' Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos discussed reliability in the 24-hour news cycle.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katy Tur</span> American television journalist

Katherine Bear Tur is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC, where since 2021 she has hosted Katy Tur Reports. She has also reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and WNBC-TV, and for The Weather Channel.

CBS News is an American streaming video news channel operated by the CBS News and Paramount Streaming divisions of Paramount Global. Launched on November 6, 2014, it features blocks of live, rolling news coverage, original programs, as well as encore airings of CBS News television programs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Lack (executive)</span>

Andrew Lack is a businessman, film executive and television executive. He was the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC from 2015 to 2020.

<i>CBS Saturday Morning</i> American Saturday morning television program

CBS Saturday Morning is a Saturday morning television program that broadcasts on the American television network, CBS. It is currently anchored by Michelle Miller, Dana Jacobson and Jeff Glor.

CBS Mornings is an American morning television program which is broadcast on CBS. The program debuted on September 7, 2021, and airs live every weekday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. It is hosted by Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil, Nate Burleson, and Vladimir Duthiers from studios at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, the headquarters of network parent company Paramount Global.

References

  1. ↑ "2002 BASEBALL ROSTER". CBS GW Sports . Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Minzesheimer, Bob (April 9, 2014). "A son tries to understand his drug dealer dad". USA Today . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ "The surprising result of a son's search for his father". CBS News. March 13, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Storey, Kate (May 29, 2019). "How Tony Dokoupil Reached the CBS This Morning Anchor Desk". Esquire . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Son Of A Secret Smuggler Digs Up The Truth About His Dad". NPR. March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ Dokoupil, Tony (July 31, 2009). "My Father the Drug Dealer". Newsweek . Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  7. ↑ Scherr, Rich (June 7, 1999). "Dokoupil's big swing makes dream come true; Severna Park senior's HR helps South in Crown game" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on June 23, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  8. ↑ Chaney, Jen. "Review: 'The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana' by Tony Dokoupil" . The Washington Post . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  9. 1 2 de Moraes, Lisa (July 6, 2016). "Tony Dokoupil Hired As Correspondent by CBS News". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  10. ↑ Calderone, Michael (June 17, 2013). "Tony Dokoupil Joins NBC News Digital As Senior Writer". HuffPost . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  11. ↑ Dokoupil, Tony (2014). The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana. Doubleday. ISBN   978-0385533461.
  12. ↑ Iannucci, Rebecca (May 6, 2019). "CBS This Morning Confirms New Anchor Lineup, Norah O'Donnell to Take Over Evening News This Summer — Watch". TVLine . Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  13. ↑ Barr, Jeremy (October 23, 2019). "Tony Dokoupil Is Getting the Hang of Morning Television". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  14. ↑ Battaglio, Stephen (August 31, 2021). "'CBS This Morning' will have a new name starting Sept. 7" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on August 31, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  15. ↑ Schrobsdorff, Susanna (April 4, 2014). "My Father Went To Jail For Dealing Weed... and I Would Keep Him There" . Time . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  16. ↑ Mizoguchi, Karen (April 16, 2019). "MSNBC Live's Katy Tur Welcomes Son Theodore with Husband Tony Dokoupil — See His First Photo". People . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  17. ↑ Mastrangelo, Dominick (May 17, 2021). "Katy Tur announces birth of second child". The Hill . Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  18. ↑ https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/cbs-mornings-co-host-tony-dokoupil-has-2-children-ex-wife-living-in-israel-they-are-safe/539527/
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.