CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil has spoken out about his relationship with Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and Paramount CEO David Ellison as the network’s rebranding continues to face scrutiny. He maintained that he can exercise independence, while drawing a comparison between eroding media trust and the “yogurt industry.”
Dokoupil, 45, took over the flagship evening broadcast in December, just weeks after Weiss assumed CBS News’ top editorial role. The leadership shakeup followed Ellison’s acquisition of Paramount, CBS’s parent company.
