CBS News on Wednesday named Tony Dokoupil, one of the hosts of its morning show, as the next anchor of the “CBS Evening News.”

His appointment is the first significant shake-up at the broadcast news division under its new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, an opinion journalist who entered the job with little background in television news.

“CBS Evening News” is the network’s flagship nightly newscast, drawing several million viewers each night, although it lags its competitors at ABC and NBC. Dokoupil, 44, is set to replace the dual-anchor team of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, both of whom have said they are leaving the network.

“We live in a time in which many people have lost trust in the media; Tony Dokoupil is the person to win it back,” Weiss said in a statement Wednesday. “That’s b

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