Tony Dokoupil sets new "populist" tone for ‘CBS Evening News’ in first week as anchor

The storied newscast once helmed by Walter Cronkite now runs third behind its competitors and is being closely watched as CBS News’s top editor promises a political reset.

Excerpt: '“People do not trust us like they used to,” he said. “Because we’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.”

Dokoupil’s vision for a more populist and personal version of the news broadcast started to come into focus during the first week as anchor.

His debut has come under special scrutiny as the most visible personnel shift made by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss, the self-described “radical centrist” who took the helm in October after billionaire David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance bought her website, the Free Press, for $150 million."