John Dickerson is anchor of The CBS Daily Report, CBS News Chief Political Analyst, Senior National Correspondent, and CBS SUNDAY MORNING Contributor. His third book, and second New York Times Best-Seller The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency was published June 2020.

In August 2024, it was announced Dickerson would become an anchor of the CBS Evening News in 2025.

Dickerson is also a contributing writer to The Atlantic and co-host of Slate’s “Political Gabfest” podcast and host of the Whistlestop podcast on presidential history. An album of personal essays collected in the Navel Gazing podcast were published in April 2024. A second season is scheduled for early 2025.

Dickerson joined CBS News in April 2009, as an analyst and contributor. For six years, he served as the Network’s political director. He was moderator of FACE THE NATION from June 2015 to January 2018 and Chief Washington Correspondent. During the 2016 presidential campaign he moderated CBS News’ two presidential debates. From January 2018 until May 2019 he was co-host of CBS THIS MORNING. In 2019 and 2020, Dickerson was a correspondent for 60 MINUTES while serving as the network’s lead political analyst.

In addition to his political work, Dickerson has interviewed a wide range of subjects including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Stephen Colbert, actors Glenda Jackson and Christian Bale, authors Colson Whitehead and Tara Westover and musicians John Prine, Jon Batiste, Jason Isbell and Dave Matthews. You can also find all of Dickerson's 19 appearances on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert here.

Dickerson started his career with Time magazine, covering economics, Congress and the presidency. In the last four years of his twelve at the magazine, he was its White House correspondent. From 2005 to 2015, he was Slate magazine’s chief political correspondent. He has covered every presidential campaign since 1992.

A native Washingtonian, Dickerson graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor’s degree in English and a specialty in American Studies. His mother, Nancy Dickerson, was CBS News’ first female correspondent. Dickerson is the author of On Her Trail (Simon and Schuster), a book about his mother. He is also the author of the New York Times best-seller Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History (Twelve Books).

He is the recipient of the Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and the David Broder Award for political reporting.

He is on the board of Covenant House International. Dickerson resides in New York City with his family.