Before joining the network in 2016, Dokoupil was a news correspondent for NBCNews and MSNBC and a writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast.
[6] Dokoupil and his mother relocated back to Maryland when he was six,[4] where he attended Severna Park High School.
[10] He released a memoir titled The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana on April 1, 2014.
[16] On September 30, 2024, Dokoupil discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with author Ta-Nehisi Coates during the latter's appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the book The Message.
[17][18][19] Dokoupil was defended by Paramount chair Shari Redstone and other CBS staffers, including chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who said that a journalist is obliged to ask tough questions when interviewing someone presenting a one-sided view.
[28] After the birth of the youngest child, Dokoupil publicly announced that he had undergone a vasectomy, and urged other men to consider it rather than putting the onus on a female significant other.