‘Feels Like the End of CBS Evening News’: Staffers Reportedly Up in Arms Amid Bari Weiss’s Reboot of Legendary News Program

New CBS Evening News Anchor Tony Dokoupil Claims He’ll Be ‘More Accountable Than Cronkite,’ Denies Bari Weiss Wrote Message Criticizing Legacy Media: ‘Writing Is My First Form’

Tony Dokoupil, Bari Weiss’ pick to try to turn around the ratings-challenged “CBS Evening News,” vowed that the nightly news program he will anchor starting next week will be “more accountable and more transparent” than under legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite. On Thursday, Jan. 1, Dokoupil shared his views on the state of journalism

‘Feels Like the End of CBS Evening News’: Staffers Reportedly Up in Arms Amid Bari Weiss’s Reboot of Legendary News Program

Gilberto Tadday/TED CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is reportedly kicking off the reboot of the CBS Evening News with a 10-city tour, on which she will accompany the program’s staff and bring her five-person armed security detail. On Friday, The Independent published a revelatory piece by Justin Baragona about the internal turmoil at CBS News, which Weiss was tapped to lead by Skydance CEO David Ellison after the media mogul bought Weiss’s F…

Bari Weiss Launches Jar Of Mayonnaise Into CBS Evening News Anchor Chair

We are calling it now: Tony Dokoupil is going to fall so flat on his face as anchor of the CBS Evening News, he’ll make Chevy Chase’s talk show look successful. He’ll make you long for Rush Limbaugh’s stint as an ESPN commentator. Remember Megyn Kelly’s run at NBC? Megyn Kelly will look like an Oprah-level talent by comparison.Dokoupil takes over the anchor chair once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid on Monday. His promotion from th…

‘Nothing Will Happen at CBS’: Megyn Kelly Predicts CBS News Can't Be Saved by New Anchor, Tony Dokoupil, as He Launches National ‘Listening Tour’

‘ Legacy media is dead and evening news has been totally irrelevant for a long time,’ the former Fox News star says.

Sources: CBS Evening News staffers expressed concern about the planned 10-day, multicity US reboot tour, citing Bari Weiss' last-minute changes and jet charters

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