|
Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360°, an unconventional, wide-ranging news program airing on CNN/U.S. weekdays. 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°, Anderson 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. Anderson Cooper has reported multiple times from Afghanistan and Iraq, including anchored coverage in both countries of the fifth and sixth anniversaries of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraqi elections. Anderson Cooper also covered the bombings in London and the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in 2006, anchored much of CNN's live coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican City in 2005 and traveled to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami in 2004.
During most of 2007, Anderson Cooper traveled around the world for Planet in Peril, a sweeping four-hour documentary in high definition about issues threatening the planet and its inhabitants. Scheduled for air in October 2007, Planet in Peril takes viewers to places around the world where environmental change is not a theory or a forecast, but a crisis happening in real time.
Anderson Cooper recently moderated the groundbreaking CNN/YouTube debate for Democratic presidential candidates from The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. He will moderate a CNN/YouTube debate for Republican presidential candidates in November.
In addition to reporting for CNN, Anderson Cooper also provides reports for CBS's 60 Minutes. Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper's memoirs about covering the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and other news events, recently topped the New York Times Bestsellers List and other bestseller charts.
Before joining CNN, Anderson Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and host of the network's reality program, The Mole. Anderson Cooper 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. Previously, he was a New York-based correspondent for ABC News, reporting primarily for World News Saturday/Sunday.
Anderson 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.
Anderson Cooper and Anderson Cooper 360° have won several awards, most recently three Emmy awards in 2006 for reports about famine in Niger, Charity Hospital in New Orleans and black market infertility. Cooper has also earned a National Headliners Award for his tsunami coverage, an Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC's coverage of Princess Diana's funeral; a Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival for his report from Sarajevo on the Bosnian civil war; a Bronze Telly for his coverage of famine in Somalia; a Bronze Award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival for a report on political Islam; and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for his 20/20 Downtown report on high school athlete Corey Johnson.
Anderson 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.
Anderson Cooper booking page
Celebrity Booking List
|
