Tony Dokoupil Named Correspondent for CBS NEWS

Tony Dokoupil has been named a correspondent for CBS News based in New York. Dokoupil will report for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms beginning in August.

Dokoupil brings to CBS News more than a decade of experience as journalist, producer, broadcaster and author reporting on topics that stir furious debate and deeply resonate with viewers.

He joins CBS News after three years at NBC News, where most recently he was a correspondent for MSNBC. He was the network's lead reporter on a run of big national stories, including the Paris climate agreement, the Flint water crisis and the armed occupation of federal land in Oregon. He also covered the presidential primaries and co-wrote "Continental Drift," a 10-part global series on the migrant crises. Earlier, Dokoupil was a senior writer for NBC News, where he contributed scripts and features for the news division's digital operation and co-produced segments for "Today" and the "Nightly News."

From 2007 to 2013, Dokoupil was a senior writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where he wrote on a variety of topics including the military, culture, society, the space race and more. At Newsweek, he had such cover stories as "The Suicide Epidemic," "iCrazy," "Dust-off 73," and "The Last Dive."

Dokoupil is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, "The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son and the Golden Age of Marijuana" (Doubleday, 2014), a memoir in which he documented his father's exploits smuggling marijuana during the '70s and '80s and their relationship when he was a child and when they reconnected later in life.

Dokoupil earned a bachelor's degree in marketing and communications from George Washington University- School of Business and a master's degree in American Studies from Columbia University.

He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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