> At a Glance
> – Tony Dokoupil has left CBS Mornings to anchor CBS Evening News at 6:30 p.m. local time
> – His children, 6-year-old Teddy and 4-year-old Eloise, are thrilled he’ll now walk them to school
> – Wife Katy Tur gains relief from solo morning parenting duties
> – Why it matters: The schedule swap reshapes daily family life and signals a new era for the historic newscast
Tony Dokoupil’s six-year CBS Mornings run is over; the 45-year-old journalist now helms CBS Evening News, and the biggest winners may be his kids.
A Breakfast Dad Again
Dokoupil calls himself the “maestro of the mornings,” sliding cereal across the counter, adding za’atar to Katy’s eggs, and stirring Eloise’s oat-milk coffee.
> “I get to have the sweet moment of walking the kids to school. It’s really special.”
The new 6:30 p.m. newscast ends his pre-dawn alarm, but evenings will need reworking: “Now we’re going to have to figure out a new dinner routine.”
Family Snapshot
- Teddy (born April 13, 2019) and Eloise (born May 13, 2021) have only known their dad’s dawn-to-midday absence
- Tur, 42, juggled MSNBC calls at 7:30 a.m. while managing two toddlers; she’s “so ready to be done with solo mornings”
- Dokoupil also parents two teens from a prior marriage who live in Israel
From Studio to Street
Cooking, he says, is “the best way I can show love,” and he’ll still batch-cook dinners despite the evening shift.
> “I can’t build a house … but I can make you dinner.”
His first week already made waves: a Jan. 5 on-air mix-up with Sen. Mark Kelly’s photo, emotional Miami reflections on Jan. 6, and a closing salute to Marco Rubio that drew headlines.
Key Takeaways
- Dokoupil’s new hours swap breakfast duty for dinner uncertainty
- Katy Tur regains morning backup after years of solo parenting
- The historic CBS Evening News chair adds travel as his “Live from America” tour hits nine cities
As the family rewrites its daily script, Dokoupil’s kids savor the simple victory: Dad now walks them to school.
