Tony Dokoupil | |
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| Born | December 24, 1980 Farmington, Connecticut, U.S. [1] |
| Alma mater | George Washington University Columbia University |
| Occupations | Journalist and television presenter |
| Employer | CBS |
| Known for | CBS Mornings |
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| Children | 4 |
Tony Dokoupil (born December 24, 1980) is an American broadcast journalist and author. Since 2019, Dokoupil has co-hosted CBS's morning program CBS Mornings . Before joining the network in 2016, Dokoupil was a news correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC and a writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast .
Dokoupil was born in Connecticut on December 24, 1980. He is of Czech descent. [2] [3] 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. [4] [5] His family relocated to Miami shortly after he was born. [6] Dokoupil and his mother relocated back to Maryland when he was six, [4] 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. [3] [8]
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. [3]
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] Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz began hosting a new third hour of CBS Mornings, called CBS Mornings Plus, in September 2024. The move followed other broadcast networks expanding their morning shows in previous years. [15] In October 2024, The New York Times described Dokoupil as a rising star at the network. [16]
On October 24, 2025, it was reported that Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, was considering Dokoupil to serve as host of CBS Evening News (as a possible replacement of current hosts John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois) due to a decline in ratings. It was also reported that Weiss was considering Norah O'Donnell , former host of CBS Evening News (who would be returning to the show after having left in January 2025), and Bret Baier, longtime host of Special Report on Fox News. If Baier was selected, he would be leaving Fox News after nearly 28 years, having initially started in 1998 as an Atlanta bureau chief. Dokoupil never publicly commented on the matter. [17]
On December 10, 2025, the network officially announced on CBS Mornings that Dokoupil would be departing the show to become the new anchor of CBS Evening News, effective January 5, 2026. He would replace both Dickerson and Dubois, who each announced that they would be leaving the network and ending their brief tenure as co-anchors of the broadcast. While Dickerson simply stated that he would be leaving at the end of the year, Dubois announced his departure date as December 18. No official announcement has been made on who will succeed Dokoupil on CBS Mornings. [18]
On September 30, 2024, Dokoupil discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with author Ta-Nehisi Coates during the latter's appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the book The Message . Dokoupil implied that the book "reads like the work of an extremist" and questioned Coates about his opinion regarding Israel's right to exist. Some CBS staffers were angered by the interview, and CBS executive Adrienne Roarke said that an internal review found that it did not meet network standards. [19] [20] [21] Dokoupil was defended by Paramount chair Shari Redstone and other CBS staffers, including chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who said that a journalist is obliged to ask tough questions when interviewing someone presenting a one-sided view. [22] [23] [24]
The following April, Dokoupil interviewed North Carolina Tar Heels football head coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, for CBS’ Sunday Morning program. The six-time Super Bowl–winning coach insisted that the segment was intended to promote his book, The Art of Winning: Lessons from a Life in Football. However, CBS stated that it had informed Belichick that Dokoupil would discuss a wider variety of topics, including the 73-year-old’s relationship with Hudson, 24, who immediately shut the interview down when a question about how they met came up. "There were no preconditions or limitations to this conversation," the network said. Belichick felt that the final piece that aired painted Hudson as "attempting to control the conversation — which is simply not true". [25]
Dokoupil has two children with his first wife, who now live in Israel. [26] [27] [28] [29] Dokoupil married fellow broadcast journalist Katy Tur in October 2017; [30] they have two children together. [31] After the birth of the second child, Dokoupil announced that he had undergone a vasectomy, urging other men to consider it rather than putting the onus of birth control on their female partner. [26]
In 2014, Dokoupil wrote about his conversion to Judaism. [32]
The cozy world of morning television was stirred up Monday by an unusually tense and substantive discussion of a volatile issue, between author Ta-Nehisi Coates and "CBS Mornings" host Tony Dokoupil. The subjects: Israel and the Palestinian people. Coates appeared on the CBS morning show to promote his new book, "The Message," which includes a section about Coates's trip to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and how this experience informs his claim of "apartheid" in Israel. Dokoupil suggested that Coates's book reads like the work of an extremist.
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