{"id":490750,"date":"2026-01-04T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490750\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:16:10","slug":"tony-dokoupil-will-debut-as-cbs-evening-news-anchor-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490750\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Dokoupil Will Debut As &#8216;CBS Evening News&#8217; Anchor On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tony-dokoupil\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tony-dokoupil\" data-tag=\"tony-dokoupil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Dokoupil<\/a> will anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs-evening-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs-evening-news\" data-tag=\"cbs-evening-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Evening News<\/a> on Saturday evening, helming the broadcast two days before his planned debut, following the U.S. operation to run <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" id=\"auto-tag_venezuela\" data-tag=\"venezuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venezuela<\/a> and capture its leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe show will broadcast from CBS\u2019s station in San Francisco. Dokoupil will then have his official launch on Monday from the network\u2019s New York studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDokoupil\u2019s first week was to have launched in Miami as part of a tour of 10 cities in ten days, before moving to the studio in New York. That tour, called Live from America, will begin later next week, the network said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe network has been heavily promoting Dokoupil ahead of his debut, particularly on social media, where he appeared in a video asserting that the broadcast would have independence from its corproate ownership while decrying instances where the press \u201cmissed the story.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe said, \u201cBecause we\u2019ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Friday, the network <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/cbs-evening-news-principles-tony-dokoupil-1236660566\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled a set <\/a>of \u201cfive simple principles\u201d for the broadcast, including \u201cWe love America. And we make no apologies for saying so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe also responded to a comment on Instagram who lamented the network loss of its \u201ctiffany shine\u201d in the years since Walter Cronkite. \u201cI can promise you we\u2019ll be more accountable and more transparent that Cronkite or any one else of his era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Dokoupil will anchor CBS Evening News on Saturday evening, helming the broadcast two days before his planned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41978,69,36555,171,201939,67,132,68,32322],"class_list":{"0":"post-490750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cbs-evening-news","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-electionline","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-tony-dokoupil","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115834426843031480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}