Anderson Cooper
“A 360-DEGREE LOOK AT WORLD EVENTS”
Anderson Cooper is the Emmy Award winning anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°. In recent years Cooper has covered nearly every major news event around the world, often reporting from the scene; including the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Cooper also provides reports for CBS’s 60 Minutes and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Dispatches from the Edge, based in part on his coverage of the tsunami in South Asia and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
BACKGROUND
Emmy Award winner Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360°, going beyond the headlines to tell stories in-depth and from multiple points of view. Cooper, who joined CNN in December 2001, served as CNN’s weekend anchor before moving to prime time in March 2003 following the war in Iraq and then to a two-hour, late evening timeslot in November 2005 following Hurricane Katrina.
Since the launch of Anderson Cooper 360°, Cooper has covered nearly all of the major news events around the world. Often reporting from the scene, he spent more than a month along the U.S. Gulf Coast covering the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has returned more than 20 times to follow the reconstruction progress. Cooper has reported multiple times from Afghanistan and Iraq, covered the bombings in London, and the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in 2006, and he traveled to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami in 2004. During most of 2007, Cooper traveled around the world for Planet in Peril, a sweeping four-hour documentary about issues threatening the planet and its inhabitants.
Cooper played a pivotal role as part of CNN’s 2008 election coverage, reporting and anchoring from both the Democratic and Republican national conventions. In 2007, Cooper moderated the groundbreaking CNN/YouTube debates for Democratic presidential candidates from The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and for Republican presidential candidates in St. Petersburg, Fla. In 2008, he moderated a Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.
In addition to reporting for CNN, Cooper also provides reports for CBS’s 60 Minutes. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper’s memoirs about covering the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and other news events, topped the New York Times Bestsellers List.
Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and anchored ABC’s live, interactive news and interview program, World News Now, as well as providing reports for World News Tonight, 20/20 and 20/20 Downtown.
Cooper joined ABC from Channel One News, where he served as chief international correspondent. During that time, he reported and produced stories from Bosnia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa and Vietnam. He also reported national stories that were broadcast over the Channel One News school television network and seen in more than 12,000 classrooms nationwide.
Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. Cooper is based in New York City.
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