Tony Dokoupil was born on December 24, 1980, in Middlebury, Connecticut, to Ann, a teacher, and Anthony Sr., who was secretly a marijuana smuggler. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from George Washington University, where he played NCAA Division I baseball. He later attained a Master’s degree in American Studies from Columbia University and spent two years on a PhD fellowship in media studies before leaving to pursue journalism in 2007.

Dokoupil spent six years as a senior writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast before joining NBC News and MSNBC in 2013. He joined CBS News in August 2016 as a New York correspondent and was named co-anchor of CBS Mornings in 2019. In 2026, he debuted as the sole anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, succeeding John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois. 

Off-screen, Dokoupil is married to fellow journalist Katy Tur and has four children — two from his first marriage who live in Israel with their mother, and two with Tur. The family resides in Brooklyn, New York.