- Wed September 30, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s global newscast Anderson Cooper 360°, going beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has reported from more than forty countries and has covered nearly all major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene – including from Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Israel, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and South Africa.
For nearly two decades, Cooper also served as a correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes, one of television’s longest-running investigative news programs.
At CNN and 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 Indian Ocean tsunami. Additionally, he has been awarded sixteen Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and an Edward R Murrow award.
Cooper has played a pivotal role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored from national party conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls, including a 2016 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
He is the author of two New York Times bestselling books: Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival, and The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss, written with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and anchored the network’s overnight newscast World News Now. He also served as a correspondent for World News Tonight and 20/20, and hosted the reality program The Mole. Earlier, he served as chief international correspondent for Channel One News, reporting from conflicts and crises around the world.
Cooper graduated from Yale University with a degree in political science.