November 2026

Tony Dokoupil is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the anchor of the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH TONY DOKOUPIL, CBS News’ flagship evening broadcast. Dokoupil anchors all CBS News special coverage, including election night and breaking news. He hosts the CBS News original podcast GREAT QUESTION WITH TONY DOKOUPIL where he dives deeper into the biggest issues driving the news cycle and shaping our world. He was previously co-host of CBS MORNINGS and a contributor to CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING. Dokoupil joined CBS News in 2016.  

The CBS EVENING NEWS is America’s longest-running network newscast originally launched nearly 80 years ago as CBS TV NEWS. The first network evening news program to go from the conventional 15-minute format to 30 minutes in 1963 becoming the iconic CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. Today, the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH TONY DOKOUPIL continues the tradition by covering the world’s biggest issues and news that hit close to home for Americans – ranging from politics, education, technology, crime, consumer news, health, weather, sports and entertainment to inspirational stories. Dokoupil stepped into the anchor role in January 2026.

Since launch, Dokoupil has anchored the CBS EVENING NEWS from communities across the country, speaking with people about the economy, the cost of living, healthcare, artificial intelligence, the conflicts in the Middle East and more as he seeks to put a spotlight and report on the most important topics for Americans in our country. Dokoupil has interviewed world leaders and news leaders, including President Donald Trump, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Pennsylvania Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, Dokoupil moderated a CBS NEWS: THINGS THAT MATTER TOWN HALL WITH VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE in Michigan. He pressed the vice president on the race for Congress and issues impacting voters at the polls, including affordability, immigration, data centers, the war with Iran and the state of our democracy. 

At CBS MORNINGS, Dokoupil conducted numerous high-profile, on-the-ground and anchoring assignments. He has co-anchored CBS’ morning news broadcast from the field of breaking news events around the world. Dokoupil reported from Capitol Hill after the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol; in Uvalde, Texas, after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary; at the Poland-Ukraine border reporting on the refugee crisis; amid Hurricanes Laura and Dorian; from several battleground states during the 2020 presidential election as a part of his “At America’s Crossroads” series; at the Kennedy Space Center for coverage of the 50^th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission; and inside the Empire State Building, previewing the revamped observation deck on the 102^nd floor.

Since joining CBS News in 2016, Dokoupil has interviewed major artists, entertainers and newsmakers, among them first lady Hillary Clinton, comedy legend Steve Martin and music superstars Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt.

Dokoupil joined CBS News from NBC News and MSNBC where he served as the cable network’s national correspondent and political embed for the 2016 presidential primaries. He reported on the Paris climate agreement and the Flint water crisis. 

Dokoupil landed his first journalism job at Newsweek – under editor-in-chief Tina Brown, where he eventually became a senior writer and his cover stories drew significant attention, including on NBC’s “Today,” ABC’s “20/20” and CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING for “The New Macho” about why men need to re-imagine masculinity, “Donorsexual” and a personal true-crime feature about his father who dealt drugs in his childhood. 

Dokoupil is the author of the critically acclaimed book The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son and the Golden Age of Marijuana (Doubleday, 2014), a memoir in which he documented his father’s exploits smuggling marijuana during the 1970s and ‘80s.

Dokoupil earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from George Washington University and a master’s degree in American Studies from Columbia University. Dokoupil started his journalism career at the Columbia Journalism Review where he co-wrote a column about media with Michael Schudson.

He has four children and lives in New York with his family.