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Anderson Cooper

Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967)[1] is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator currently anchoring the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes on 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.

Anderson Cooper
Cooper in 2018
Born
Anderson Hays Cooper

(1967-06-03) June 3, 1967 (age 56)
Alma materYale University (BA)
Occupations
Years active1990–present
Employers
Television
Children2
Parents
RelativesVanderbilt family

In 2001, Cooper joined CNN, where he was given his own show, Anderson Cooper 360°, in 2003; 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 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 openly gay journalist on American television".[2] In 2016, Cooper became the first openly LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate, and he has received several GLAAD Media Awards.

Early life and education

Cooper was born in Manhattan, New York City, the younger son of writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and artist Gloria Vanderbilt. His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and Reginald's patrilineal great-grandfather was business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who founded the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune.[3] He has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski (b. 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (b. 1952), from Gloria's ten-year marriage to conductor Leopold Stokowski.[4] In 2014, Cooper appeared in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots, where he learned of an ancestor, Burwell Boykin, who was a slave owner from the southern United States.[5][6]

Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper's Bazaar.[7][8] At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17, 1970, appearing with his mother.[citation needed] At the age of nine, he appeared on To Tell the Truth as an impostor. From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's.[9]

Wyatt experienced a series of heart attacks while undergoing open-heart surgery, and died January 5, 1978, at the age of 50. Cooper considers his father's book Families to be "sort of a guide on... how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very connected to him."[9]

When Cooper was 21, his older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book A Mother's Story, in which she expressed her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti-asthma prescription drug salbutamol. Carter's suicide sparked Anderson's interest in journalism:[9]

Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it's something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can't tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?

Cooper attended the Dalton School, a private co-educational day school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. At age 17, after graduating from Dalton a semester early, Cooper traveled around Africa for several months on a "survival trip". He contracted malaria on the trip and was hospitalized in Kenya. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in."[9][10][11] Cooper attended Yale University, where he resided in Trumbull College and was a coxswain on the lightweight rowing team. He was inducted into the Manuscript Society and majored in political science, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989.[12]

Career

Early career

During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency while studying political science.[13] He pursued journalism with no formal journalistic education.[14][13] He is a self-proclaimed "news junkie since [he] was in utero".[15] After his first correspondence work in the early 1990s, he took a break from reporting and lived in Vietnam for a year, during which time he studied the Vietnamese language at Vietnam National University, Hanoi.[16]

Channel One

After Cooper graduated from Yale, he tried to gain entry-level employment with ABC answering telephones, but was unsuccessful. Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on-air reporting, Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass. At the time, Cooper was working as a fact checker for the small news agency Channel One, which produces a youth-oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States.[17] Cooper then entered Myanmar on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government.[15]

After reporting from Myanmar, Cooper lived in Vietnam for a year to study the Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi. Persuading Channel One to allow him to bring a Hi8 camera with him, Cooper began filming and assembling reports of Vietnamese life and culture that aired on Channel One. In 1992, he filmed stories from Somalia, Bosnia, and Rwanda.[citation needed]

After having been on such assignments for a couple of years, Cooper realized in 1994 that he had slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him; the horrors of the Rwandan genocide became trivial: "I would see a dozen bodies and think, you know, it's a dozen, it's not so bad."[10] One particular incident, however, snapped him out of it:[10]

On the side of the road [Cooper] came across five bodies that had been in the sun for several days. The skin of a woman's hand was peeling off like a glove. Revealing macabre fascination, Cooper whipped out his disposable camera and took a closeup photograph for his personal album. As he did, someone took a photo of him. Later that person showed Cooper the photo, saying, "You need to take a look at what you were doing." "And that's when I realized I've got to stop, [...] I've got to report on some state fairs or a beauty pageant or something, to just, like, remind myself of some perspective."

ABC

In 1995, Cooper became a correspondent for ABC News, eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on its overnight World News Now program on September 21, 1999. In 2000, he switched career paths, taking a job as the host of ABC's reality show The Mole:[15]

My last year at ABC, I was working overnights anchoring this newscast, then during the day at 20/20. So I was sleeping in two- or four-hour shifts, and I was really tired and wanted a change. I wanted to clear my head and get out of news a little bit, and I was interested in reality TV—and it was interesting.

Cooper was also a fill-in co-host for Regis Philbin on Live with Regis and Kelly in 2007 when Philbin underwent triple-bypass heart surgery.[18] As of 2019, he still periodically serves as guest co-host on Live when one of the two hosts cannot go in to work.[citation needed]

CNN

 
Anderson Cooper covering the Trump/Kim Summit in Singapore, 2018

Cooper left The Mole after its second season to return to broadcast news. In 2001, he joined CNN, commenting, "Two seasons was enough, and 9/11 happened, and I thought I needed to be getting back to news."[15] His first position at CNN was to anchor alongside Paula Zahn on American Morning. In 2002, he became CNN's weekend prime-time anchor. Since 2002, he has hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from Times Square.[citation needed]

Anderson Cooper 360°

On September 8, 2003, Cooper became the anchor of Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN. Describing his philosophy as an anchor, he has said:[15]

I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away, the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it. I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it. I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on The Simpsons is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.

In 2005, Cooper covered the tsunami damage in Sri Lanka; the Cedar Revolution in Beirut, Lebanon; the death of Pope John Paul II; and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. In August 2005, he covered the Niger famine from Maradi.[citation needed]

 
Cooper covering a 2007 protest of the government response to Hurricane Katrina

In 2005, during CNN coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he confronted Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. Trent Lott, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson about their perception of the government response. As Cooper said later in an interview with New York magazine, "Yeah, I would prefer not to be emotional and I would prefer not to get upset, but it's hard not to when you're surrounded by brave people who are suffering and in need."[9] A contributor to Broadcasting & Cable magazine wrote: "In its aftermath, Hurricane Katrina served to usher in a new breed of emo-journalism, skyrocketing CNN's Anderson Cooper to superstardom as CNN's golden boy and a darling of the media circles because of his impassioned coverage of the storm."[19]

In September 2005, the format of CNN's NewsNight was changed from 60 to 120 minutes to cover the unusually violent hurricane season. To help distribute some of the increased workload, Cooper was temporarily added as co-anchor to Aaron Brown. This arrangement was reported to have been made permanent the same month by the president of CNN's U.S. operations, Jonathan Klein, who has called Cooper "the anchorperson of the future".[20] Following the addition of Cooper, the ratings for NewsNight increased significantly; Klein remarked that "[Cooper's] name has been on the tip of everyone's tongue."[21] To further capitalize on this, Klein announced a major programming shakeup on November 2, 2005. Cooper's 360° program would be expanded to two hours and shifted into the 10:00pm ET slot formerly held by NewsNight, with the third hour of Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room filling in Cooper's former 7:00pm ET slot. With "no options" left for him to host shows, Aaron Brown left CNN, ostensibly having "mutually agreed" with Jonathan Klein on the matter.[22]

 
Cooper at the inauguration of President Obama in Washington, D.C., 2009

In early 2007, Cooper signed a multi-year deal with CNN that would allow him to continue as a contributor to 60 Minutes, as well as doubling his salary from $2 million annually to a reported $4 million.[23]

The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper

On April 16, 2023, CNN launched a new Sunday primetime series, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.[24]

CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute

In 2007, he began hosting CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute, a show about extraordinary deeds by ordinary people.[citation needed]

Planet in Peril documentary

In October 2007, Cooper began hosting the documentary Planet in Peril with Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin on CNN. In 2008, Cooper, Gupta, and Lisa Ling from National Geographic Explorer teamed up for a sequel, Planet in Peril: Battle Lines, which premiered in December 2008.[25][26]

Syndicated talk show: Anderson Live

In September 2010, Warner Bros. and Telepictures (both corporate siblings of CNN) announced that Cooper had signed an agreement to host a nationally syndicated talk show. The journalist Brian Stelter (at the time employed by The New York Times, and now by CNN), reported on Twitter that the new Warner Bros. daytime talk show would be named Anderson (now titled Anderson Live).[27] The show premiered on September 12, 2011,[28] and as part of negotiations over the talk show deal, Cooper signed a new multi-year contract with CNN to continue as the host of Anderson Cooper 360°.[29][30] On October 29, 2012, it was announced that Anderson Live would end at the conclusion of its second season. The show, slightly renamed after season one and revamped with a variety of co-hosts, failed to achieve the ratings distributor Warner Brothers hoped for. The final Anderson Live aired on May 30, 2013.[citation needed]

2016 presidential debates

Along with Martha Raddatz, Cooper moderated the second presidential election debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.[31] This made him the first openly LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate in the general election.[32]

New Years Eve

In 2017, Cooper's close friend, Andy Cohen, joined Cooper in succeeding Kathy Griffin as co-host of CNN's New Year's Eve coverage.[33][34] They again co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 .[35]

60 Minutes

 
Cooper at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards (Astoria Hotel, May 21, 2012)

Cooper has been a correspondent for the CBS News program 60 Minutes since 2007, while concurrently serving as a CNN anchor and correspondent.[citation needed]

Other work

AC2

Andy Cohen and Cooper announced that they would be going on a national tour to perform their conversational stage show AC2 beginning in March 2015.[36][37] The tour opened in Boston, followed by Miami Beach, Chicago and Atlanta.[37] The idea for the show came about after Cooper interviewed Cohen about his then-latest book, The Andy Cohen Diaries, at an event at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.[38][39] Since then, the two-man show has continued to tour, reaching more than fifty cities as of October 2018.[40]

Broadway

Cooper was the narrator for the 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, directed by Rob Ashford and starring Daniel Radcliffe.[41]

Writings

A freelance writer, Cooper has authored a variety of articles that have appeared in many other outlets, including Details magazine.[42]

In May 2006, Cooper published a memoir for HarperCollins, Dispatches from the Edge, detailing his life and work in Sri Lanka, Africa, Iraq and Louisiana over the previous year. Some of the book's proceeds are donated to charity.[43] The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list on June 18, 2006.[44]

In 2017, Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, co-authored The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss. Compiled from a series of emails, the memoir recounts their shared past, and Vanderbilt's tumultuous childhood. Cooper said his goal in writing the book and correspondence was to leave "nothing left unsaid" between the pair.[45] It landed on multiple best-seller lists the year of its publication.[46]

Jeopardy!

From April 19 to 30, 2021 Cooper served as a guest host on Jeopardy! following the death of Alex Trebek.[47]

Podcast: All There Is

In 2022, Cooper launched a deeply personal podcast exploring grief and loss. On the show, he interviews other notable people on their experiences with grief. Guests have included TV host Stephen Colbert, musician Laurie Anderson and comedian Molly Shannon.[48] The inspiration for the podcast came from his own life. Reflecting on the loss of his father when he was 10, the loss of his brother to suicide at 21, and the more recent loss of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt, he said “What has struck me is the degree to which I had not dealt with this stuff at all." He shared that he wanted to explore this universal human experience. "I just felt like, ‘Why am I so alone in this? This is something we all go through.' And this idea gave me great strength, that I’m on a road that has been traveled by everybody, in one form or another. Why every time somebody is going down this road should it feel like the first time?” [49]

Personal life

 
Cooper in 2018

As of 2016, Cooper was not registered to any political party.[50]

While promoting his book, Cooper told Oprah Winfrey he had dyslexia as a child.[51]

Cooper is openly gay; as of 2012, he was (according to The New York Times) "the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television".[52] For years, Cooper avoided discussing his private life in interviews. On July 2, 2012, however, he gave Andrew Sullivan permission to publish an email that stated, in part:[53]

I've begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle. It's become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something—something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true. ... The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

In 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook, before making the decision to publicly come out as gay, sought Cooper's advice.[54]

In 2014, Cooper and his long-term partner at the time, Benjamin Maisani, purchased Rye House, a historic estate in Connecticut.[55] In March 2018, Cooper confirmed that he and Maisani had split up.[56]

Cooper was friends with Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and host of the CNN series Parts Unknown. After Bourdain died by suicide on June 8, 2018, Cooper paid tribute to him in a CNN special program, Remembering Anthony Bourdain.[57][58] Cooper also paid tribute to Bourdain on the Thanksgiving 2020 episode of Anderson Cooper Full Circle, saying that he was "proud to call Anthony Bourdain a friend", and adding: "He is so, so missed by so many."[59][60]

In 2021, Cooper and co-author Katherine Howe published Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, a history of the Vanderbilt family going back to his Vanderbilt ancestors who came to New Amsterdam in the 17th century.[61]

Children

On April 30, 2020, Cooper announced the birth of his son Wyatt Morgan Cooper by a surrogate on April 27. "On Monday I became a father. I've never said that out loud and it astonishes me. I have a son," he said at the end of a CNN Town Hall on his show, Anderson Cooper 360°. He also went on to make an announcement on Instagram, stating that "Wyatt Morgan Cooper was born on Monday weighing 7 pounds 2 ounces."[62][63]

Though Cooper and Benjamin Maisani are no longer romantically involved, the pair co-parent the child and Maisani was present in the delivery room for Wyatt's birth. Wyatt is named after Cooper's late father, Wyatt Cooper, and his middle name is derived from the Morgan side of his family, being the maiden name of his maternal grandmother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt.[64]

On February 10, 2022, Cooper announced at the beginning of his show on CNN that he had just become a father for a second time to a son named Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper. Maisani is in the process of adopting Cooper's son Wyatt, after which Wyatt's surname will become Maisani-Cooper.[65]

Awards

 
Cooper accepting a Peabody Award in 2012 for CNN's coverage of the Arab Spring

Cooper helped lead CNN's Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and the network's Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award-winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami. He has won 18 Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.[66]

Year Award Organization Work Category Result
1993 Bronze Telly Telly Awards Coverage of famine in Somalia Won[67][68]
1997 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Coverage of Princess Diana's funeral Won[67][68][69]
2001 GLAAD Media Award GLAAD 20/20 Downtown: "High School Hero" – report on high school athlete Corey Johnson. Outstanding TV Journalism Won[70][67]
2005 Peabody Award Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia Coverage of Hurricane Katrina Won[68][71]
National Headliner Award Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360: "Wave of Destruction" – 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami coverage Coverage of a Major News Event Won[69][72][73]
2006 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Charity Hospital" Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Won[74][75]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Starving in Plain Sight" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long Form Won[74][75]
Anderson Cooper 360: "The Children: Part One and Part Two" Best Story In a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated[76]
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism CNN for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia Won[77]
2007 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Sago Mines" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long Form Nominated[78]
Anderson Cooper 360: "High Rise Crash" Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Lighting Direction & Scenic Design Nominated[78]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Black Market Infertility" Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated
National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360:"9/11 Anniversary – Afghanistan: The Unfinished War" Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks And Syndicators Won[79]
2008 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Unapproved Drugs" Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated[80]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Chicago Police Brutality" Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated[80]
National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360: "Bhutto Assassination" Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks And Syndicators Won[81]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Michael Ware 2007 Coverage of Iraq" Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event Won[81]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Keeping Them Honest: Transparent Congress?" Investigative Reporting Won[81]
GLAAD Media Awards GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360: "The First Casualty" TV Journalism – News Segment Won[82]
2009 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS 60 Minutes: "War against Women" Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story In a News Magazine Won[83]
CNN's Coverage of the Democratic National Convention Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long Form Nominated[84]
CNN's Coverage of Election Night 2008 Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long Form Nominated[84]
2010 National Order of Honour and Merit Government of Haiti Reporting on 2010 Haiti earthquake Awarded[85]
National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360: "Inside the Battle Zone: Afghanistan" Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event Won[86]
2011 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Haiti in Ruins" Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Won[87]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Crisis in Haiti" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Won[87]
National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City "Taliban" Documentary or Series of Reports on the Same Subject Won[88]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Black or White: Kids on Race" Investigative Reporting Won[88]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think" Environmental Reporting Won[88]
Overseas Press Club Awards Overseas Press Club "Taliban" Edward R. Murrow Award Won[89]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Haiti Earthquake" David Kaplan Award Won[89]
GLAAD Media Awards GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360: "Gay Teen Suicides" Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine Won[90]
2012 Peabody Award Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication CNN's Reporting on the Arab Spring Won[91]
Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Bullying: It Stops Here" Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Won[92]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Unrest Escalates in Egypt" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Nominated[93]
CNN/CNNi Breaking News Simulcast: "Revolution in Egypt: President Mubarak Steps Down" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Won[92]
National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360: "Egypt Uprising" Coverage of a major news event Won[94]
GLAAD Media Award GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360: "The 'Sissy Boy' Experiments" Outstanding TV Journalism – News Magazine Won[95]
Lew Klein Awards Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication Excellence Honoree Awarded[96]
2013 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS 60 Minutes: "Three Generations of Punishment" Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story In a News Magazine Nominated[97]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Kids on Race: The Hidden Picture" Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Won[98]
CNN: "Election Night in America" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Won[98]
CNN: "Israel/Gaza Conflict" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Nominated[97]
GLAAD Media Award GLAAD Vito Russo Award Awarded[99]
2014 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Boston Bombing Victim Vows to Dance Again" Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated[100]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Guns Under Fire: An AC360 Town Hall" Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Nominated[100]
CNN Newsroom: "CNN's Coverage of Typhoon Haiyan" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long-Form Nominated[100]
60 Minutes: "Cosmic Roulette" Outstanding Writing Nominated[100]
2015 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "NYC Chokehold Death Protests" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story-Long-Form Nominated[101]
2016 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Europe's Refugee Crisis" Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Won[102]
60 Minutes: "Lumber Liquidators" Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Nominated[103]
Anderson Cooper 360: "#BeingThirteen: Inside the Secret World of Teens" Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Won[102]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Police Under Fire" Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Nominated[103]
CNN Special Report: "CNN Debates Coverage" Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Nominated[103]
Yale Undergraduate Lifetime Achievement Award Yale College Council Awarded[104]
2017 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS 60 Minutes: "The Music of Zomba Prison" Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine Won[105]
60 Minutes: "The Brothers Rosenberg" Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine Nominated[106]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Pulse Nightclub Massacre" Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated[106]
CNN: "Battle for Mosul" Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated[106]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Trump Accusers Speak Out with Anderson Cooper" Outstanding Live Interview Nominated[106]
CNN Newsroom: "Pam Bondi Interview with Anderson Cooper" Outstanding Live Interview Nominated[106]
60 Minutes: "Little Jazz Man" Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report Won[105]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Trump University Fraud" Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report Won[105]
60 Minutes: "The Music of Zomba Prison" Outstanding Writing Nominated[106]
2018 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS CNN Worldwide Hurricane Coverage Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated[107]
Manchester Concert Attack Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated[107]
Anderson Cooper 360: "NFL Town Hall: Patriotism, The Players and The President" Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Nominated[107]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Anderson Cooper Interviews Janet Porter" Outstanding Live Interview Nominated[107]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Faces of Grief: Sutherland Springs Pastor & Heather Melton" Outstanding Live Interview Won[108]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Sally Yates and Anderson Cooper" Outstanding Edited Interview Nominated[107]
60 Minutes: "The Forger" Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report Nominated[107]
60 Minutes: "Brain Hacking" Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report Nominated[107]
GLAAD Media Award GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360: "The Pulse of Orlando: Terror at the Nightclub" Outstanding Journalism Newsmagazine Won[109]
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Awarded[110]
2019 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS Anderson Cooper 360: "Undercover with Nigeria's Pushermen" Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast Nominated[111]
CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute Outstanding News Special Nominated[111]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Finding Hope: Battling America's Suicide Crisis" Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Won[112]
60 Minutes: "Stormy Daniels" Outstanding Edited Interview Nominated[111]
60 Minutes: "Into the Wild" Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report Nominated[111]
Anderson Cooper 360: "The Parkland Diaries" Best Story in a Newscast Nominated[111]
2020 Emmy Award ATAS/NATAS A Deadly Weekend in America Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated[113]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Anderson Cooper Interviews Facebook's Monika Bickert" Outstanding Live Interview Nominated[113]
60 Minutes: "Mark Bradford" Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report Won[114]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Anderson Cooper Pays Tribute to his Mom, Gloria Vanderbilt" Outstanding Writing Nominated[113]
2023 Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Poynter Institute Awarded[115]

Other awards

Career timeline

Filmography

Books

  • Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival (Harper Perennial, 2006). ISBN 978-0061451515.
  • The Rainbow Comes and Goes (Harper Perennial, 2016). ISBN 978-0062454942.
  • Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. Hardcover – September 21, 2021 ISBN 0062964615
  • Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune. Harper – September 19, 2023 ISBN 978-0062964700

See also

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anderson, cooper, anderson, hays, cooper, born, june, 1967, american, broadcast, journalist, political, commentator, currently, anchoring, news, broadcast, show, addition, duties, cooper, serves, correspondent, minutes, news, after, graduating, from, yale, uni. Anderson Hays Cooper born June 3 1967 1 is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator currently anchoring the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360 In addition to his duties at CNN Cooper serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes on 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 Anderson CooperCooper in 2018BornAnderson Hays Cooper 1967 06 03 June 3 1967 age 56 New York City U S Alma materYale University BA OccupationsBroadcast journalistpolitical commentatorYears active1990 presentEmployersChannel One News 1990 1995 ABC News 1995 2000 CNN 2001 present TelevisionAnderson Cooper 360 Anderson LiveAnderson Cooper Full CircleThe Whole Story with Anderson CooperChildren2ParentsWyatt Emory CooperGloria VanderbiltRelativesVanderbilt familyIn 2001 Cooper joined CNN where he was given his own show Anderson Cooper 360 in 2003 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 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 openly gay journalist on American television 2 In 2016 Cooper became the first openly LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate and he has received several GLAAD Media Awards Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Early career 2 2 Channel One 2 3 ABC 2 4 CNN 2 4 1 Anderson Cooper 360 2 4 2 The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper 2 4 3 CNN Heroes An All Star Tribute 2 4 4 Planet in Peril documentary 2 4 5 Syndicated talk show Anderson Live 2 4 6 2016 presidential debates 2 4 7 New Years Eve 2 5 60 Minutes 2 6 Other work 2 6 1 AC2 2 6 2 Broadway 2 6 3 Writings 2 6 4 Jeopardy 2 6 5 Podcast All There Is 3 Personal life 3 1 Children 4 Awards 4 1 Other awards 5 Career timeline 6 Filmography 7 Books 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksEarly life and educationCooper was born in Manhattan New York City the younger son of writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and artist Gloria Vanderbilt His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Reginald s patrilineal great grandfather was business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt who founded the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune 3 He has two older half brothers Leopold Stanislaus Stan Stokowski b 1950 and Christopher Stokowski b 1952 from Gloria s ten year marriage to conductor Leopold Stokowski 4 In 2014 Cooper appeared in Henry Louis Gates Jr s Finding Your Roots where he learned of an ancestor Burwell Boykin who was a slave owner from the southern United States 5 6 Cooper s media experience began early As a baby he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper s Bazaar 7 8 At the age of three Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17 1970 appearing with his mother citation needed At the age of nine he appeared on To Tell the Truth as an impostor From age 10 to 13 Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren Calvin Klein and Macy s 9 Wyatt experienced a series of heart attacks while undergoing open heart surgery and died January 5 1978 at the age of 50 Cooper considers his father s book Families to be sort of a guide on how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make And so I feel very connected to him 9 When Cooper was 21 his older brother Carter Vanderbilt Cooper committed suicide on July 22 1988 at age 23 by jumping from the 14th floor terrace of Vanderbilt s New York City penthouse apartment Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son s death in the book A Mother s Story in which she expressed her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti asthma prescription drug salbutamol Carter s suicide sparked Anderson s interest in journalism 9 Loss is a theme that I think a lot about and it s something in my work that I dwell on I think when you experience any kind of loss especially the kind I did you have questions about survival Why do some people thrive in situations that others can t tolerate Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own Cooper attended the Dalton School a private co educational day school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan At age 17 after graduating from Dalton a semester early Cooper traveled around Africa for several months on a survival trip He contracted malaria on the trip and was hospitalized in Kenya Describing the experience Cooper wrote Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in 9 10 11 Cooper attended Yale University where he resided in Trumbull College and was a coxswain on the lightweight rowing team He was inducted into the Manuscript Society and majored in political science graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989 12 CareerEarly career During college Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency while studying political science 13 He pursued journalism with no formal journalistic education 14 13 He is a self proclaimed news junkie since he was in utero 15 After his first correspondence work in the early 1990s he took a break from reporting and lived in Vietnam for a year during which time he studied the Vietnamese language at Vietnam National University Hanoi 16 Channel One After Cooper graduated from Yale he tried to gain entry level employment with ABC answering telephones but was unsuccessful Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on air reporting Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass At the time Cooper was working as a fact checker for the small news agency Channel One which produces a youth oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States 17 Cooper then entered Myanmar on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government 15 After reporting from Myanmar Cooper lived in Vietnam for a year to study the Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi Persuading Channel One to allow him to bring a Hi8 camera with him Cooper began filming and assembling reports of Vietnamese life and culture that aired on Channel One In 1992 he filmed stories from Somalia Bosnia and Rwanda citation needed After having been on such assignments for a couple of years Cooper realized in 1994 that he had slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him the horrors of the Rwandan genocide became trivial I would see a dozen bodies and think you know it s a dozen it s not so bad 10 One particular incident however snapped him out of it 10 On the side of the road Cooper came across five bodies that had been in the sun for several days The skin of a woman s hand was peeling off like a glove Revealing macabre fascination Cooper whipped out his disposable camera and took a closeup photograph for his personal album As he did someone took a photo of him Later that person showed Cooper the photo saying You need to take a look at what you were doing And that s when I realized I ve got to stop I ve got to report on some state fairs or a beauty pageant or something to just like remind myself of some perspective ABC In 1995 Cooper became a correspondent for ABC News eventually rising to the position of co anchor on its overnight World News Now program on September 21 1999 In 2000 he switched career paths taking a job as the host of ABC s reality show The Mole 15 My last year at ABC I was working overnights anchoring this newscast then during the day at 20 20 So I was sleeping in two or four hour shifts and I was really tired and wanted a change I wanted to clear my head and get out of news a little bit and I was interested in reality TV and it was interesting Cooper was also a fill in co host for Regis Philbin on Live with Regis and Kelly in 2007 when Philbin underwent triple bypass heart surgery 18 As of 2019 he still periodically serves as guest co host on Live when one of the two hosts cannot go in to work citation needed CNN nbsp Anderson Cooper covering the Trump Kim Summit in Singapore 2018Cooper left The Mole after its second season to return to broadcast news In 2001 he joined CNN commenting Two seasons was enough and 9 11 happened and I thought I needed to be getting back to news 15 His first position at CNN was to anchor alongside Paula Zahn on American Morning In 2002 he became CNN s weekend prime time anchor Since 2002 he has hosted CNN s New Year s Eve special from Times Square citation needed Anderson Cooper 360 On September 8 2003 Cooper became the anchor of Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN Describing his philosophy as an anchor he has said 15 I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away the all knowing all seeing person who speaks from on high I don t think the audience really buys that anymore As a viewer I know I don t buy it I think you have to be yourself and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don t know and talk about what you do know and talk about what you don t know as long as you say you don t know it I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves for good or for bad than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona The anchorman on The Simpsons is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem In 2005 Cooper covered the tsunami damage in Sri Lanka the Cedar Revolution in Beirut Lebanon the death of Pope John Paul II and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles In August 2005 he covered the Niger famine from Maradi citation needed nbsp Cooper covering a 2007 protest of the government response to Hurricane KatrinaIn 2005 during CNN coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he confronted Sen Mary Landrieu Sen Trent Lott and the Reverend Jesse Jackson about their perception of the government response As Cooper said later in an interview with New York magazine Yeah I would prefer not to be emotional and I would prefer not to get upset but it s hard not to when you re surrounded by brave people who are suffering and in need 9 A contributor to Broadcasting amp Cable magazine wrote In its aftermath Hurricane Katrina served to usher in a new breed of emo journalism skyrocketing CNN s Anderson Cooper to superstardom as CNN s golden boy and a darling of the media circles because of his impassioned coverage of the storm 19 In September 2005 the format of CNN s NewsNight was changed from 60 to 120 minutes to cover the unusually violent hurricane season To help distribute some of the increased workload Cooper was temporarily added as co anchor to Aaron Brown This arrangement was reported to have been made permanent the same month by the president of CNN s U S operations Jonathan Klein who has called Cooper the anchorperson of the future 20 Following the addition of Cooper the ratings for NewsNight increased significantly Klein remarked that Cooper s name has been on the tip of everyone s tongue 21 To further capitalize on this Klein announced a major programming shakeup on November 2 2005 Cooper s 360 program would be expanded to two hours and shifted into the 10 00pm ET slot formerly held by NewsNight with the third hour of Wolf Blitzer s The Situation Room filling in Cooper s former 7 00pm ET slot With no options left for him to host shows Aaron Brown left CNN ostensibly having mutually agreed with Jonathan Klein on the matter 22 nbsp Cooper at the inauguration of President Obama in Washington D C 2009In early 2007 Cooper signed a multi year deal with CNN that would allow him to continue as a contributor to 60 Minutes as well as doubling his salary from 2 million annually to a reported 4 million 23 The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper On April 16 2023 CNN launched a new Sunday primetime series The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper 24 CNN Heroes An All Star Tribute In 2007 he began hosting CNN Heroes An All Star Tribute a show about extraordinary deeds by ordinary people citation needed Planet in Peril documentary In October 2007 Cooper began hosting the documentary Planet in Peril with Sanjay Gupta and Jeff Corwin on CNN In 2008 Cooper Gupta and Lisa Ling from National Geographic Explorer teamed up for a sequel Planet in Peril Battle Lines which premiered in December 2008 25 26 Syndicated talk show Anderson Live In September 2010 Warner Bros and Telepictures both corporate siblings of CNN announced that Cooper had signed an agreement to host a nationally syndicated talk show The journalist Brian Stelter at the time employed by The New York Times and now by CNN reported on Twitter that the new Warner Bros daytime talk show would be named Anderson now titled Anderson Live 27 The show premiered on September 12 2011 28 and as part of negotiations over the talk show deal Cooper signed a new multi year contract with CNN to continue as the host of Anderson Cooper 360 29 30 On October 29 2012 it was announced that Anderson Live would end at the conclusion of its second season The show slightly renamed after season one and revamped with a variety of co hosts failed to achieve the ratings distributor Warner Brothers hoped for The final Anderson Live aired on May 30 2013 citation needed 2016 presidential debates Along with Martha Raddatz Cooper moderated the second presidential election debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump 31 This made him the first openly LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate in the general election 32 New Years Eve In 2017 Cooper s close friend Andy Cohen joined Cooper in succeeding Kathy Griffin as co host of CNN s New Year s Eve coverage 33 34 They again co hosted CNN s New Year s Eve for 2018 2019 2020 2021 and 2022 35 60 Minutes nbsp Cooper at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards Astoria Hotel May 21 2012 Cooper has been a correspondent for the CBS News program 60 Minutes since 2007 while concurrently serving as a CNN anchor and correspondent citation needed Other work AC2 Andy Cohen and Cooper announced that they would be going on a national tour to perform their conversational stage show AC2 beginning in March 2015 36 37 The tour opened in Boston followed by Miami Beach Chicago and Atlanta 37 The idea for the show came about after Cooper interviewed Cohen about his then latest book The Andy Cohen Diaries at an event at the 92nd Street Y in New York City 38 39 Since then the two man show has continued to tour reaching more than fifty cities as of October 2018 40 Broadway Cooper was the narrator for the 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying directed by Rob Ashford and starring Daniel Radcliffe 41 Writings A freelance writer Cooper has authored a variety of articles that have appeared in many other outlets including Details magazine 42 In May 2006 Cooper published a memoir for HarperCollins Dispatches from the Edge detailing his life and work in Sri Lanka Africa Iraq and Louisiana over the previous year Some of the book s proceeds are donated to charity 43 The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list on June 18 2006 44 In 2017 Cooper and his mother Gloria Vanderbilt co authored The Rainbow Comes and Goes A Mother and Son on Life Love and Loss Compiled from a series of emails the memoir recounts their shared past and Vanderbilt s tumultuous childhood Cooper said his goal in writing the book and correspondence was to leave nothing left unsaid between the pair 45 It landed on multiple best seller lists the year of its publication 46 Jeopardy From April 19 to 30 2021 Cooper served as a guest host on Jeopardy following the death of Alex Trebek 47 Podcast All There Is In 2022 Cooper launched a deeply personal podcast exploring grief and loss On the show he interviews other notable people on their experiences with grief Guests have included TV host Stephen Colbert musician Laurie Anderson and comedian Molly Shannon 48 The inspiration for the podcast came from his own life Reflecting on the loss of his father when he was 10 the loss of his brother to suicide at 21 and the more recent loss of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt he said What has struck me is the degree to which I had not dealt with this stuff at all He shared that he wanted to explore this universal human experience I just felt like Why am I so alone in this This is something we all go through And this idea gave me great strength that I m on a road that has been traveled by everybody in one form or another Why every time somebody is going down this road should it feel like the first time 49 Personal life nbsp Cooper in 2018As of 2016 Cooper was not registered to any political party 50 While promoting his book Cooper told Oprah Winfrey he had dyslexia as a child 51 Cooper is openly gay as of 2012 he was according to The New York Times the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television 52 For years Cooper avoided discussing his private life in interviews On July 2 2012 however he gave Andrew Sullivan permission to publish an email that stated in part 53 I ve begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle It s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something something that makes me uncomfortable ashamed or even afraid This is distressing because it is simply not true The fact is I m gay always have been always will be and I couldn t be any more happy comfortable with myself and proud In 2014 Apple CEO Tim Cook before making the decision to publicly come out as gay sought Cooper s advice 54 In 2014 Cooper and his long term partner at the time Benjamin Maisani purchased Rye House a historic estate in Connecticut 55 In March 2018 Cooper confirmed that he and Maisani had split up 56 Cooper was friends with Anthony Bourdain celebrity chef and host of the CNN series Parts Unknown After Bourdain died by suicide on June 8 2018 Cooper paid tribute to him in a CNN special program Remembering Anthony Bourdain 57 58 Cooper also paid tribute to Bourdain on the Thanksgiving 2020 episode of Anderson Cooper Full Circle saying that he was proud to call Anthony Bourdain a friend and adding He is so so missed by so many 59 60 In 2021 Cooper and co author Katherine Howe published Vanderbilt The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty a history of the Vanderbilt family going back to his Vanderbilt ancestors who came to New Amsterdam in the 17th century 61 Children On April 30 2020 Cooper announced the birth of his son Wyatt Morgan Cooper by a surrogate on April 27 On Monday I became a father I ve never said that out loud and it astonishes me I have a son he said at the end of a CNN Town Hall on his show Anderson Cooper 360 He also went on to make an announcement on Instagram stating that Wyatt Morgan Cooper was born on Monday weighing 7 pounds 2 ounces 62 63 Though Cooper and Benjamin Maisani are no longer romantically involved the pair co parent the child and Maisani was present in the delivery room for Wyatt s birth Wyatt is named after Cooper s late father Wyatt Cooper and his middle name is derived from the Morgan side of his family being the maiden name of his maternal grandmother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt 64 On February 10 2022 Cooper announced at the beginning of his show on CNN that he had just become a father for a second time to a son named Sebastian Luke Maisani Cooper Maisani is in the process of adopting Cooper s son Wyatt after which Wyatt s surname will become Maisani Cooper 65 Awards nbsp Cooper accepting a Peabody Award in 2012 for CNN s coverage of the Arab SpringCooper helped lead CNN s Peabody Award winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the network s Alfred I duPont Columbia University Award winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami He has won 18 Emmy Awards including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and an Edward R Murrow Award 66 Year Award Organization Work Category Result1993 Bronze Telly Telly Awards Coverage of famine in Somalia Won 67 68 1997 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Coverage of Princess Diana s funeral Won 67 68 69 2001 GLAAD Media Award GLAAD 20 20 Downtown High School Hero report on high school athlete Corey Johnson Outstanding TV Journalism Won 70 67 2005 Peabody Award Henry W Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia Coverage of Hurricane Katrina Won 68 71 National Headliner Award Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360 Wave of Destruction 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami coverage Coverage of a Major News Event Won 69 72 73 2006 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Charity Hospital Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Won 74 75 Anderson Cooper 360 Starving in Plain Sight Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story Long Form Won 74 75 Anderson Cooper 360 The Children Part One and Part Two Best Story In a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated 76 Alfred I duPont Columbia University Award Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism CNN for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia Won 77 2007 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Sago Mines Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story Long Form Nominated 78 Anderson Cooper 360 High Rise Crash Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft Lighting Direction amp Scenic Design Nominated 78 Anderson Cooper 360 Black Market Infertility Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast NominatedNational Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360 9 11 Anniversary Afghanistan The Unfinished War Broadcast Television Networks Cable Networks And Syndicators Won 79 2008 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Unapproved Drugs Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated 80 Anderson Cooper 360 Chicago Police Brutality Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated 80 National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360 Bhutto Assassination Broadcast Television Networks Cable Networks And Syndicators Won 81 Anderson Cooper 360 Michael Ware 2007 Coverage of Iraq Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event Won 81 Anderson Cooper 360 Keeping Them Honest Transparent Congress Investigative Reporting Won 81 GLAAD Media Awards GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360 The First Casualty TV Journalism News Segment Won 82 2009 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS 60 Minutes War against Women Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story In a News Magazine Won 83 CNN s Coverage of the Democratic National Convention Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story Long Form Nominated 84 CNN s Coverage of Election Night 2008 Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story Long Form Nominated 84 2010 National Order of Honour and Merit Government of Haiti Reporting on 2010 Haiti earthquake Awarded 85 National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360 Inside the Battle Zone Afghanistan Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event Won 86 2011 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Haiti in Ruins Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Won 87 Anderson Cooper 360 Crisis in Haiti Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Won 87 National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Taliban Documentary or Series of Reports on the Same Subject Won 88 Anderson Cooper 360 Black or White Kids on Race Investigative Reporting Won 88 Anderson Cooper 360 Amazing Animals Smarter Than You Think Environmental Reporting Won 88 Overseas Press Club Awards Overseas Press Club Taliban Edward R Murrow Award Won 89 Anderson Cooper 360 Haiti Earthquake David Kaplan Award Won 89 GLAAD Media Awards GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360 Gay Teen Suicides Outstanding TV Journalism Newsmagazine Won 90 2012 Peabody Award Henry W Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication CNN s Reporting on the Arab Spring Won 91 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Bullying It Stops Here Outstanding News Discussion amp Analysis Won 92 Anderson Cooper 360 Unrest Escalates in Egypt Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Nominated 93 CNN CNNi Breaking News Simulcast Revolution in Egypt President Mubarak Steps Down Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Won 92 National Headliner Awards Press Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360 Egypt Uprising Coverage of a major news event Won 94 GLAAD Media Award GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360 The Sissy Boy Experiments Outstanding TV Journalism News Magazine Won 95 Lew Klein Awards Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication Excellence Honoree Awarded 96 2013 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS 60 Minutes Three Generations of Punishment Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story In a News Magazine Nominated 97 Anderson Cooper 360 Kids on Race The Hidden Picture Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Won 98 CNN Election Night in America Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Won 98 CNN Israel Gaza Conflict Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Nominated 97 GLAAD Media Award GLAAD Vito Russo Award Awarded 99 2014 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Boston Bombing Victim Vows to Dance Again Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated 100 Anderson Cooper 360 Guns Under Fire An AC360 Town Hall Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Nominated 100 CNN Newsroom CNN s Coverage of Typhoon Haiyan Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Nominated 100 60 Minutes Cosmic Roulette Outstanding Writing Nominated 100 2015 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 NYC Chokehold Death Protests Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Nominated 101 2016 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Europe s Refugee Crisis Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Won 102 60 Minutes Lumber Liquidators Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Nominated 103 Anderson Cooper 360 BeingThirteen Inside the Secret World of Teens Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Won 102 Anderson Cooper 360 Police Under Fire Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis Nominated 103 CNN Special Report CNN Debates Coverage Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story Long Form Nominated 103 Yale Undergraduate Lifetime Achievement Award Yale College Council Awarded 104 2017 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS 60 Minutes The Music of Zomba Prison Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine Won 105 60 Minutes The Brothers Rosenberg Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine Nominated 106 Anderson Cooper 360 Pulse Nightclub Massacre Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated 106 CNN Battle for Mosul Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated 106 Anderson Cooper 360 Trump Accusers Speak Out with Anderson Cooper Outstanding Live Interview Nominated 106 CNN Newsroom Pam Bondi Interview with Anderson Cooper Outstanding Live Interview Nominated 106 60 Minutes Little Jazz Man Outstanding Arts Culture and Entertainment Report Won 105 Anderson Cooper 360 Trump University Fraud Outstanding Business Consumer and Economic Report Won 105 60 Minutes The Music of Zomba Prison Outstanding Writing Nominated 106 2018 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS CNN Worldwide Hurricane Coverage Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated 107 Manchester Concert Attack Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated 107 Anderson Cooper 360 NFL Town Hall Patriotism The Players and The President Outstanding News Discussion amp Analysis Nominated 107 Anderson Cooper 360 Anderson Cooper Interviews Janet Porter Outstanding Live Interview Nominated 107 Anderson Cooper 360 Faces of Grief Sutherland Springs Pastor amp Heather Melton Outstanding Live Interview Won 108 Anderson Cooper 360 Sally Yates and Anderson Cooper Outstanding Edited Interview Nominated 107 60 Minutes The Forger Outstanding Arts Culture and Entertainment Report Nominated 107 60 Minutes Brain Hacking Outstanding Business Consumer and Economic Report Nominated 107 GLAAD Media Award GLAAD Anderson Cooper 360 The Pulse of Orlando Terror at the Nightclub Outstanding Journalism Newsmagazine Won 109 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Arizona State University s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Awarded 110 2019 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS Anderson Cooper 360 Undercover with Nigeria s Pushermen Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast Nominated 111 CNN Heroes An All Star Tribute Outstanding News Special Nominated 111 Anderson Cooper 360 Finding Hope Battling America s Suicide Crisis Outstanding News Discussion amp Analysis Won 112 60 Minutes Stormy Daniels Outstanding Edited Interview Nominated 111 60 Minutes Into the Wild Outstanding Arts Culture or Entertainment Report Nominated 111 Anderson Cooper 360 The Parkland Diaries Best Story in a Newscast Nominated 111 2020 Emmy Award ATAS NATAS A Deadly Weekend in America Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Nominated 113 Anderson Cooper 360 Anderson Cooper Interviews Facebook s Monika Bickert Outstanding Live Interview Nominated 113 60 Minutes Mark Bradford Outstanding Arts Culture or Entertainment Report Won 114 Anderson Cooper 360 Anderson Cooper Pays Tribute to his Mom Gloria Vanderbilt Outstanding Writing Nominated 113 2023 Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Poynter Institute Awarded 115 Other awards Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival for his report from Sarajevo on the Bosnian War 67 116 Bronze Award from the National Education Film and Video Festival for a report on political Islam 67 116 Career timeline1999 2000 World News Now co anchor 117 2001 2002 The Mole host 117 2002 present New Year s Eve Live co anchor on CNN and CNN International 2003 present Anderson Cooper 360 anchor 117 2005 NewsNight co anchor 117 2007 present 60 Minutes correspondent 117 2011 2013 Anderson Live 2021 Jeopardy guest host 118 FilmographyChappie 2015 The 33 2015 Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice 2016 Black Panther Wakanda Forever 2022 BooksDispatches from the Edge A Memoir of War Disasters and Survival Harper Perennial 2006 ISBN 978 0061451515 The Rainbow Comes and Goes Harper Perennial 2016 ISBN 978 0062454942 Vanderbilt The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Hardcover September 21 2021 ISBN 0062964615 Astor The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Harper September 19 2023 ISBN 978 0062964700See alsoLGBT culture in New York City List of LGBT people from New York City New Yorkers in journalismReferences 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 Whitaker Barbara July 27 1988 Simple Service for Vanderbilt s Son Newsday p 4 Section News Hubbard Kim May 1996 Living with Loss People Archived from the original on August 2 2016 Retrieved December 15 2008 PBS September 22 2014 Archived from the original on October 6 2014 Retrieved October 9 2014 Desmond Harris 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