Bari Weiss, the recently appointed editor in chief at CBS News,<\/a> reportedly expressed a desire to bring in an outside name, including Bret Baier, the Washington-based anchor at conservative-leaning Fox News. CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper was also discussed internally, but he chose to sign a new deal with his network. Baier\u2019s current deal at Fox News runs through 2028.<\/p>\n\u201cWe live in a time in which many people have lost trust in the media. Tony Dokoupil is the person to win it back,\u201d Weiss said in a statement. \u201cThat\u2019s because he believes in old school journalistic values: asking the hard questions, following the facts wherever they lead and holding power to account. Americans hungry for fairness will see that on display night after night.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Free Press, the digital news site co-founded by Weiss and acquired by Paramount, vigorously defended Dokoupil last year when he was at the center of controversy over an aggressive on-air interview he conducted with author Ta-Nehisi Coates last year.<\/p>\n
Dokoupil was admonished in an editorial meeting for how he questioned Coates about his new book, \u201cThe Message,\u201d which examines the Israel-Gaza conflict. CBS News leadership said on the call that the interview did not meet the company\u2019s editorial standards after receiving a number of complaints from staffers.<\/p>\n
A recording of the meeting was posted on the Free Press site. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is journalists like Tony Dokoupil who are an endangered species in legacy news organizations, which are wilting to the pressures of this new elite consensus,\u201d the editors of the Free Press wrote on the matter.<\/p>\n
Shari Redstone<\/a>, the former majority shareholder in CBS News parent Paramount, also publicly expressed her support for Dokoupil at the time. She said CBS News executives made \u201ca bad mistake\u201d in their handling of the matter. Both executives who led the editorial call, Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark, are no longer with the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Dokoupil is moving from mornings to evenings at CBS News. Dokoupil, currently the co-host of \u201cCBS Mornings,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15199,61590,45691,171235,18291,171236,88,91908,75459,18512,75461,6779,171233,25403,171234,149597],"class_list":["post-341113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-call","tag-cbs-evening-news","tag-cbs-mornings","tag-co-host","tag-comment","tag-editorial-meeting","tag-entertainment","tag-free-press","tag-john-dickerson","tag-matter","tag-maurice-dubois","tag-network","tag-next-anchor","tag-past-year","tag-signature-program","tag-tony-dokoupil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}