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Anderson Cooper
Birth Name:Anderson Hays Cooper
Birth Date:3 June 1967
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Alma Mater:Yale University (BA)
Years Active:1990–present
Relatives:Vanderbilt family
Children:2

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, 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°, 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 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.

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. 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."

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:

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."[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] 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.

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.

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." One particular incident, however, snapped him out of it:

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:

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.

CNN

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." 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.

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:

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.

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." 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 10:00 pm ET slot formerly held by NewsNight, with the third hour of Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room filling in Cooper's former 7:00 pm 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]

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 , a show about extraordinary deeds by ordinary people.

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.

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 LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate in the general election.[32]

New Year's 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, 2022[35] and 2023.[36]

60 Minutes

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

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.[37] [38] The tour opened in Boston, followed by Miami Beach, Chicago and Atlanta. 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.[39] [40] Since then, the two-man show has continued to tour, reaching more than fifty cities as of October 2018.[41]

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.[42]

Writings

A freelance writer, Cooper has authored a variety of articles that have appeared in many other outlets, including Details magazine.[43]

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.[44] The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list on June 18, 2006.[45]

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.[46] It landed on multiple best-seller lists the year of its publication.[47]

Jeopardy!

From April 19 to 30, 2021 Cooper served as a guest host on Jeopardy! following the death of Alex Trebek.[48]

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.[49] 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?"[50]

Cooper won a 2023 Webby Award for Best Series for All There Is. His 5-word acceptance speech was "All There Is, Is Love."[51]

Personal life

As of 2016, Cooper was not registered to any political party.[52]

While promoting his book, Cooper told Oprah Winfrey he had dyslexia as a child.[53]

Cooper played Dungeons & Dragons with his brother as a child. He later said that it gave him and his brother an escape from the grief of their father's death.[54]

Cooper is gay; as of 2012, he was (according to The New York Times) "the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television".[55] 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:[56]

In 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook, before making the decision to publicly come out as gay, sought Cooper's advice.[57]

In 2014, Cooper and his long-term partner at the time, Benjamin Maisani, purchased Rye House, a historic estate in Connecticut.[58] In March 2018, Cooper confirmed that he and Maisani had split up.[59]

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.[60] [61] 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."[62] [63]

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.[64]

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."[65] [66]

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.[67]

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.[68]

Awards

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.[69]

Year Award Organization Work Category Result
1993Bronze TellyTelly AwardsCoverage of famine in SomaliaWon[70] [71]
1997Emmy AwardATAS/NATASCoverage of Princess Diana's funeralWon[72]
2001GLAAD Media AwardGLAAD20/20 Downtown

"High School Hero"report on high school athlete Corey Johnson.

Outstanding TV JournalismWon[73]
2005Peabody AwardHenry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of GeorgiaCoverage of Hurricane KatrinaWon[74]
National Headliner AwardPress Club of Atlantic CityAnderson Cooper 360: "Wave of Destruction"2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami coverageCoverage of a Major News EventWon[75] [76]
2006Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Charity Hospital"Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastWon[77] [78]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Starving in Plain Sight"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News StoryLong FormWon
Anderson Cooper 360: "The Children: Part One and Part Two"Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated[79]
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University AwardColumbia University Graduate School of JournalismCNN for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South AsiaWon[80]
2007Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Sago Mines"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News StoryLong FormNominated[81]
Anderson Cooper 360: "High Rise Crash"Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Lighting Direction & Scenic DesignNominated
Anderson Cooper 360: "Black Market Infertility"Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated
National Headliner AwardsPress Club of Atlantic CityAnderson Cooper 360: "9/11 AnniversaryAfghanistan: The Unfinished War"Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks And SyndicatorsWon[82]
2008Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Unapproved Drugs"Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated[83]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Chicago Police Brutality"Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated
National Headliner AwardsPress Club of Atlantic CityAnderson Cooper 360: "Bhutto Assassination"Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks And SyndicatorsWon[84]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Michael Ware 2007 Coverage of Iraq"Continuing Coverage of a Major News EventWon
Anderson Cooper 360: "Keeping Them Honest: Transparent Congress?"Investigative ReportingWon
GLAAD Media AwardsGLAADAnderson Cooper 360: "The First Casualty"TV JournalismNews SegmentWon[85]
2009Emmy AwardATAS/NATAS60 Minutes: "War against Women"Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News MagazineWon[86]
CNN's Coverage of the Democratic National ConventionOutstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News StoryLong FormNominated[87]
CNN's Coverage of Election Night 2008Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News StoryLong FormNominated
2010National Order of Honour and MeritGovernment of HaitiReporting on 2010 Haiti earthquakeAwarded[88]
National Headliner AwardsPress Club of Atlantic CityAnderson Cooper 360: "Inside the Battle Zone: Afghanistan"Continuing Coverage of a Major News EventWon[89]
2011Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Haiti in Ruins"Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastWon[90]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Crisis in Haiti"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News StoryLong FormWon
National Headliner AwardsPress Club of Atlantic City"Taliban"Documentary or Series of Reports on the Same SubjectWon[91]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Black or White: Kids on Race"Investigative ReportingWon
Anderson Cooper 360: "Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think"Environmental ReportingWon
Overseas Press Club AwardsOverseas Press Club"Taliban"Edward R. Murrow AwardWon[92]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Haiti Earthquake"David Kaplan AwardWon
GLAAD Media AwardsGLAADAnderson Cooper 360: "Gay Teen Suicides"Outstanding TV JournalismNewsmagazineWon[93]
2012Peabody AwardHenry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass CommunicationCNN's Reporting on the Arab SpringWon[94]
Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Bullying: It Stops Here"Outstanding News Discussion & AnalysisWon[95]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Unrest Escalates in Egypt"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News StoryLong FormNominated[96]
CNN/CNNi Breaking News Simulcast: "Revolution in Egypt: President Mubarak Steps Down"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News StoryLong FormWon
National Headliner AwardsPress Club of Atlantic CityAnderson Cooper 360: "Egypt Uprising"Coverage of a major news eventWon[97]
GLAAD Media AwardGLAADAnderson Cooper 360: "The 'Sissy Boy' Experiments"Outstanding TV JournalismNews MagazineWon[98]
Lew Klein AwardsTemple University Klein College of Media and CommunicationExcellence HonoreeAwarded[99]
2013Emmy AwardATAS/NATAS60 Minutes: "Three Generations of Punishment"Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News MagazineNominated[100]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Kids on Race: The Hidden Picture"Outstanding News Discussion and AnalysisWon[101]
CNN: "Election Night in America"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News StoryLong FormWon
CNN: "Israel/Gaza Conflict"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News StoryLong FormNominated
GLAAD Media AwardGLAADVito Russo AwardAwarded[102]
2014Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Boston Bombing Victim Vows to Dance Again"Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated[103]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Guns Under Fire: An AC360 Town Hall"Outstanding News Discussion and AnalysisNominated
CNN Newsroom: "CNN's Coverage of Typhoon Haiyan"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News StoryLong-FormNominated
60 Minutes: "Cosmic Roulette"Outstanding WritingNominated
2015Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "NYC Chokehold Death Protests"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story-Long-FormNominated[104]
2016Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Europe's Refugee Crisis"Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastWon[105]
60 Minutes: "Lumber Liquidators"Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News MagazineNominated[106]
Anderson Cooper 360: "#BeingThirteen: Inside the Secret World of Teens"Outstanding News Discussion and AnalysisWon
Anderson Cooper 360: "Police Under Fire"Outstanding News Discussion and AnalysisNominated
CNN Special Report: "CNN Debates Coverage"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News StoryLong FormNominated
Yale Undergraduate Lifetime Achievement AwardYale College CouncilAwarded[107]
2017Emmy AwardATAS/NATAS60 Minutes: "The Music of Zomba Prison"Outstanding Feature Story in a NewsmagazineWon[108]
60 Minutes: "The Brothers Rosenberg"Outstanding Feature Story in a NewsmagazineNominated[109]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Pulse Nightclub Massacre"Outstanding Breaking News CoverageNominated
CNN: "Battle for Mosul"Outstanding Breaking News CoverageNominated
Anderson Cooper 360: "Trump Accusers Speak Out with Anderson Cooper"Outstanding Live InterviewNominated
CNN Newsroom: "Pam Bondi Interview with Anderson Cooper"Outstanding Live InterviewNominated
60 Minutes: "Little Jazz Man"Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment ReportWon
Anderson Cooper 360: "Trump University Fraud"Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic ReportWon
60 Minutes: "The Music of Zomba Prison"Outstanding WritingNominated
2018Emmy AwardATAS/NATASCNN Worldwide Hurricane CoverageOutstanding Breaking News CoverageNominated[110]
Manchester Concert AttackOutstanding Breaking News CoverageNominated
Anderson Cooper 360: "NFL Town Hall: Patriotism, The Players and The President"Outstanding News Discussion & AnalysisNominated
Anderson Cooper 360: "Anderson Cooper Interviews Janet Porter"Outstanding Live InterviewNominated
Anderson Cooper 360: "Faces of Grief: Sutherland Springs Pastor & Heather Melton"Outstanding Live InterviewWon[111]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Sally Yates and Anderson Cooper"Outstanding Edited InterviewNominated
60 Minutes: "The Forger"Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment ReportNominated
60 Minutes: "Brain Hacking"Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic ReportNominated
GLAAD Media AwardGLAADAnderson Cooper 360: "The Pulse of Orlando: Terror at the Nightclub"Outstanding Journalism NewsmagazineWon[112]
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismArizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationAwarded[113]
2019Emmy AwardATAS/NATASAnderson Cooper 360: "Undercover with Nigeria's Pushermen"Outstanding Investigative Report in a NewscastNominated[114]
CNN Heroes: An All-Star TributeOutstanding News SpecialNominated
Anderson Cooper 360: "Finding Hope: Battling America's Suicide Crisis"Outstanding News Discussion & AnalysisWon[115]
60 Minutes: "Stormy Daniels"Outstanding Edited InterviewNominated
60 Minutes: "Into the Wild"Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment ReportNominated
Anderson Cooper 360: "The Parkland Diaries"Best Story in a NewscastNominated
2020Emmy AwardATAS/NATASA Deadly Weekend in AmericaOutstanding Breaking News CoverageNominated[116]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Anderson Cooper Interviews Facebook's Monika Bickert"Outstanding Live InterviewNominated
60 Minutes: "Mark Bradford"Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment ReportWon[117]
Anderson Cooper 360: "Anderson Cooper Pays Tribute to his Mom, Gloria Vanderbilt"Outstanding WritingNominated
2023Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in JournalismPoynter InstituteAwarded[118]
2023Webby Award for Best Series (Podcast)Webby Awards"All There Is" PodcastBest Series (Podcast)Won (People's Voice)
2023Webby Award for Best Host (Podcast)Webby Awards"All There Is" PodcastBest Host (Podcast)Honored[119]
2024Ambie Award for Best Podcast HostThe Podcast Academy"All There Is" podcastBest Podcast HostNominated[120]

Other awards

Career timeline

Filmography

Books

See also

External links

Notes and References

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