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Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Cooper in 2018 | |
| Born | Anderson Hays Cooper June 3, 1967 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) |
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| Years active | 1990–present |
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| Television |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Relatives | Vanderbilt family |
Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967)[1] is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator who anchors the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes, produced by CBS News. After graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989, he began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regions for Channel One News. Cooper was hired by ABC News as a correspondent in 1995, but he soon took more jobs throughout the network, working for a short time as a co-anchor, reality game show host, and fill-in morning talk show host.
In 2001, Cooper joined CNN, where he was given his own show, Anderson Cooper 360°; he has remained the show's host since. He developed a reputation for his on-the-ground reporting of breaking news events, with his coverage of Hurricane Katrina causing his popularity to sharply increase. For his coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Cooper received a National Order of Honour and Merit, the highest honor granted by the Haitian government. From September 2011 to May 2013, he also served as the host of his own syndicated television daytime talk show, Anderson Live.
Cooper has won 18 Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards, as well as an Edward Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club in 2011. A member of the Vanderbilt family, he came out as gay in 2012, becoming "the most prominent gay journalist on American television".[2] In 2016, Cooper became the first LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate, and he has received several GLAAD Media Awards.
- ^ Karger, Dave (May 23, 2006). "Anderson Cooper, memoirist – and Idol fanatic". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on September 1, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ Stelter, Brian (July 2, 2012). "Revelation Signals a Shift in Views of Homosexuality". Media Decoder Blog. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
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