The American TV columnist, Tony Dokoupil is for the most part known as the journalist for CBS News. The former national journalist for NBC News and MSNBC news channel has covered numerous essential issues. Tony is also known for being the husband of journalist Katy Bear Tur.
Tony Dokoupil was born in Miami, the United States, to parents Ann Dokoupil and Anthony Edward Dokupil. He is an American by nationality and his ethnicity is white.
As a child, Tony had a very rough childhood, due to his parent's substance abuse. His father was part of the Colombian marijuana cartel in America. To further add to his grief, his father departed when Tony was just 6, and he has mentioned that he spent a major part of his adult life searching for his father until finally uniting in 2014.
For the most part of his schooling, he attended many private schools. Tony Dokoupil attended The George Washington University School of Business and graduated with a bachelor's degree in the field of marketing and communication. He later enrolled at Columbia University from where he attained his master's degree in American studies and a Ph.D. in the field of media studies.
Tony started working as a staff writer for Newsweek magazine while he was still in college where he wrote for the Periscope section. Tony Dokoupil was then promoted to the post of Senior Writer in The Daily Beast and Newsweek, as one of the contemporary to Greg Gutfeld. Dokoupil wrote many important cover stories during his time in the magazines namely crazy, The Suicide Epidemic, and many others.
He also has written a book titled The Last Pirate, where Tony Dokoupil talks about growing up under his father, who was a part of the humongous marijuana syndicate of the time in the United States, and what effects it had on him and on his family.
Shortly after all these, he joined NBC News and also provided video graphical content for the online platforms of MSNBC and NBC News, where his colleagues were Brian Williams and Matt Lauer.
He was then promoted as the national reporter for MSNBC and soon enough was made a network correspondent, alongside Mika Brzezinski. During his time as a news correspondent, Tony Dokoupil covered many important stories of the time like US Presidential primaries, the Paris Climate Agreement etc.
After his tenure with MSNBC, Tony moved to CBS News and still continues to work there till date alongside other renowned journalists like Gayle King and Stephen Colbert.
Tony Dokoupil is a very secretive kind of a person and has not revealed any information about his previous dating history. He is married to Katharine Bear Tur, a fellow news correspondent from the channel NBC.
The duo met at the makeup room of MSNBC and after dating for a while, they decide to get engaged. Tony Dokoupil and Katy's wedding was held in the middle of the desert in Utah in October of 2017. They still don't have any children but have given some thought to parenting a kid.
Tony Dokoupil's net worth hasn't yet been calculated but he has been working in the news business for more than 13 years, which might have given him quite leverage in his net worth. However, his wife Katy Bear Tur has an estimated net worth of $4 million. We can however assume that the journalist, Tony Dokoupil has earned over more than a million as his net worth.
