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Don MacLeod

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Journalism

Tony Dokoupil’s First Night, the Pause, and the Edit That Followed

Posted on January 8, 2026January 7, 2026 By Don MacLeod

On Tony Dokoupil’s first night anchoring the CBS Evening News, the show briefly stopped pretending it wasn’t live. The moment came during a transition. Dokoupil moved from one segment to the next and discovered — in real time — that the handoff wasn’t where he expected it to be. The…

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