Anderson Cooper Biography
Anderson Cooper is an American anchor and correspondent working for CNN as an anchor of Anderson Cooper 360° and a correspondent for 60 Minutes on CBS News. He joined the CNN news team in 2001, after previously working for ABC News.
Anderson Cooper Career
Cooper is the anchor of Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN, a global news show that goes beyond the headlines with stories and in-depth reporting. The show airs on CNN on weeknights at 8 p.m. ET and is also shown on CNN International for viewers around the world. Since April 2023, Anderson has also been the host of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, a CNN show that airs every Sunday and features character-driven stories, special interviews, profiles, and in-depth investigations from CNN anchors and journalists.
Cooper began his career in 1992 and has since worked in almost eighty countries. He has covered major news events all over the world, often from the scene. Cooper has also been very important to CNN’s coverage of politics and the election. He has been an anchor at conventions and handled several presidential primary debates and town halls. Cooper was chosen by the Committee On Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Trump and Clinton in 2016.
Along with his CNN shows, Cooper also works as a daily reporter for CBS’s 60 Minutes. He has won a lot of important news awards at CNN and 60 Minutes. He helped lead CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which won a Peabody Award, and of the 2004 tsunami, which won a duPont Award. Besides that, he has twenty Emmy Awards, two of which were for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Cooper wrote four best-selling books. They are 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. Cooper was a correspondent for ABC News and the host of the reality show The Mole before he joined CNN. He was the anchor of World News Now on ABC at night and a correspondent for both World News Tonight and 20/20.
Cooper moved from being the top international correspondent at Channel One News to ABC. He wrote and reported on news about wars in Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Israel, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and South Africa during that time. Channel One News was a school TV network that more than 12,000 classrooms across the country watched every day. Cooper earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from Yale University in 1989. He also went to the University of Hanoi to learn Vietnamese. His home is in New York City.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, Fredricka Whitfield, Bill Weir, Amara Walker, John Avlon, Dana Bash, David Axelrod, John Berman, Victor Blackwell, Wolf Blitzer, Kate Bolduan, Pamela Brown, Kim Brunhuber, Erin Burnett, Alisyn Camerota, Julia Chatterley, Rosemary Church, Laura Coates, Audie Cornish, Amanda Davies, Max Foster, Bianna Golodryga, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Laila Harrak, Erica Hill, Michael Holmes, Van Jones, Brianna Keilar, Lynda Kinkade, John King, Melissa Knowles, Christina Macfarlane, John Miller, Veronica Miracle, Bianca Nobilo, Abby Phillip, Brad Parks, Richard Quest, Don Riddell, Michael Smerconish, Boris Sanchez, Tom Sater.
Anderson Cooper Salary
Cooper earns an annual salary of about $10 Million -$12 Million.
Anderson Cooper Net Worth
Cooper has an estimated net worth of about $15 Million – $20 Million which he has earned through his career as a news anchor and correspondent.
Anderson Cooper Age
Cooper was born on June 3, 1967, in Manhattan, New York, United States. He is 56 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 3rd of June every year.
Anderson Cooper Height and Weight
Cooper stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall (1.77m) and weighs 70 kgs (154 lbs).
Anderson Cooper Family
Cooper was born in Manhattan, New York City to Wyatt Emory Cooper (father), who was a writer, and Gloria Vanderbilt (mother), who was an artist. His grandfather from his mother’s side was Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (grandfather), a millionaire equestrian of the Vanderbilt family, and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (grandmother) who was a socialite. Reginald’s great-grandfather was a famous businessperson who was the founder of the Vanderbilt Shipping and Railroad fortune.
Copper also has two elder half-brothers; Christopher Stokowski (born 1952) and Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski (born 1950). These were the two sons of Gloria’s first marriage to Leopold Stokowski a conductor. He has a blood brother named Carter Vanderbilt Cooper who was born in 1965 and died in 1988 at the age of 23 through suicide.
Anderson Cooper Wife/ Gay and Children
Cooper is openly gay and he confirmed this himself in 2012 through a published email by Andrew Sullivan. In 2014, Cooper and his gay partner Benjamin Maisani bought an estate in Connecticut named Rye House. They split up in March 2018 due to reasons that are not publicly known. Cooper’s first son, Wyatt Morgan Cooper was born on April 27, 2020, weighing 7 pounds and 2 ounces through surrogacy and Maisani was present when he was born.
He announced the birth of Wyatt in a CNN Show ‘Town Hall’. Cooper and Benjamin co-parent the child since they are not together now. Cooper announced at the begginning of his show on CNN the birth of his second son Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper on February 10, 2022. Maisani wants to adopt Cooper’s son Wyatt and his surname will become Maisani-Cooper.
Anderson Cooper Podcast
Cooper has a podcast named “All There Is with Anderson Cooper”. This podcast on CNN audio is about the people we lose, the people left behind, and how we can live on with loss and with love.
Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt
In the United States, the Vanderbilt family became well-known during the Gilded Age. Cornelius Vanderbilt built huge shipping and train companies that made his family rich. They went on to be successful in other business and charity ventures as well. His children and grandchildren built huge houses on Fifth Avenue in New York City, fancy “summer cottages” in Newport, Rhode Island, the huge Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina, and many other very fancy homes. The family also built Berkshire houses in the western part of Massachusetts. Elm Court in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is one example.
The Vanderbilts used to be the richest family in the US. Up until he died in 1877, Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest person in the United States. After he died, his son William Henry Vanderbilt took over his father’s wealth and was the richest person in America until he died in 1885. It wasn’t until the middle of the 20th century that the Vanderbilts lost their status. Ten of their grand Fifth Avenue buildings were torn down, and most of their other homes were sold or turned into museums. This period has been called the “Fall of the House of Vanderbilt.”
Anderson Cooper Social Media Platform
Cooper is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 9.5M followers on Twitter 4.1M followers on Instagram, and 985.4K followers on Facebook.