Emmy Award-Winning CNN Anchor, Anderson Cooper 360° & The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper; Host of All There Is Podcast and NYT Bestselling Author
Anderson Cooper: Biography at a Glance
- Anderson Cooper is one of the most recognizable media personalities in the world, with a career spanning international journalism, political coverage, entertainment, and some of television's most widely watched live broadcasts.
- Known for his thoughtful, probing interviews, Cooper has built a reputation for drawing out revealing conversations with an extraordinary range of people, from world leaders and newsmakers to artists and cultural icons.
- For nearly a decade, Cooper has co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve Live alongside Bravo's Andy Cohen, becoming an annual fixture of the celebration. Their unscripted exchanges and on-air chemistry have introduced audiences to a different side of the veteran journalist.
- Having reported from nearly 80 countries, often from the front lines, Cooper has covered wars, natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and political upheaval. His experience moderating presidential debates and anchoring major election coverage gives him a firsthand perspective on the people and events shaping our world.
- In his podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper, he explores the deeply personal subject of grief, drawing on his own experience of loss and conversations with others to examine how we navigate life-altering experiences, find connection, and move forward.
- Cooper is a 23x Emmy Award winner, recipient of multiple Peabody Awards, and a 4x New York Times bestselling author. Across his work, he brings audiences an engaging and deeply human perspective on journalism, resilience, and the stories that connect us.
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Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, airing on CNN and is simulcast on CNN International. Cooper is also the host of the popular podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper. With moving and honest discussions, Cooper shares his deeply personal journey to understand his own feelings of grief and learn from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses. Anderson’s weekly companion show All There Is Live with Anderson Cooper streams on the All There Is community page where listeners can share their stories and engage with Cooper, his guests, and each other — online and on air. Since April 2023, he also hosts The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, airing Sundays on CNN, which showcases character-driven stories and investigative deep dives from CNN anchors and correspondents.
Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in nearly eighty countries and has covered major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene.
Cooper has also played a pivotal role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, Cooper was selected by the Committee On Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
At CNN and previously as a regular correspondent at CBS 60 Minutes, Cooper has won a number of major journalism awards. He helped lead CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and duPont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami. Additionally, he has been awarded twenty-three Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Cooper’s four books—Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune,Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss and Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival—all topped the New York Times Bestseller List.
Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and host of the network’s reality program The Mole. Cooper anchored ABC’s overnight newscast World News Now, and was a correspondent for World News Tonight as well as 20/20.
Cooper joined ABC from Channel One News, where he served as chief international correspondent. During that time, he reported and produced stories, from conflicts in Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Israel, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and South Africa. Channel One News was a school television network seen daily 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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Anderson Cooper: The Whole Story
A 23x Emmy Award-winning anchor, bestselling author, and co-host of New Year's Eve Live, Anderson Cooper has built a career at the intersection of news, politics, and popular culture. From reporting on wars and political upheaval to interviewing some of the most influential figures in entertainment, Cooper draws on decades of experiences in this evening of conversation, sharing memorable encounters, behind-the-scenes moments from his career, and his perspective on the people, events, and cultural shifts that have captured the world's attention. He also explores more personal territory, reflecting on his own experience of loss and the themes at the heart of his podcast All There Is, including how we process grief, find connection, and learn to live with the people and experiences we've lost.
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